The shortlist for the LexisNexis Legal Awards 2025 has been announced. The LexisNexis Legal Awards will be held at the Park ...

Despite disability being a Section 25 factor in its own right, there is a dearth of resources specifically addressing the same. Often rolled into earning capacity, disability in one or more parties to ...

A teenage Jehovah's Witness who was crushed in a car accident has died after refusing a blood transfusion in hospital. The schoolboy, aged 15, was airlifted to hospital from the incident in Smethwick, ...

The government plans to expand the number of courts specialising in domestic violence from 25 to more than 50 by April 2007. The existing courts have already had an impact on current prosecutions and ...

Until relatively recently practitioners dealing with financial remedy work were rarely troubled by the issue of costs at the conclusion of a contested final hearing. However with the introduction from ...

Part IV of the Family Law Act 1996 (the 1996 Act) sets out the basic legislative framework for the protection of victims of Domestic Violence in England and Wales. With very limited exceptions all ...

The case of Re C (A Child) [2016] EWHC 3171 (Fam) (case heading: London Borough of Tower Hamlets v M and F and Others), Pauffley J raises a number of issues over where the welfare of a child may be ...

Kim Beatson, Partner, Anthony Gold and Shelley Turrell, Trainee Solicitor, Anthony Gold. Your TOLATA (Trusts of Land and Appointment of Trustees Act 1996) proceedings have almost reached conclusion.

In Re G (Residence: Same Sex Partners) [2005] 2 FLR 957, the parties had cohabited in a same-sex relationship for 8 years, during which time the respondent gave birth to two children conceived by ...

The Law Commission 1 has observed that the lack of any overarching principle in s 25 of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 leaves the judge in a position of a bus driver with all the instructions on how ...

The Financial Remedies Unit at the Central Family Court is running a pilot scheme for an accelerated First Appointment procedure in financial remedy proceedings. The FRU hears thousands of cases each ...

Philip Moor QC has been appointed as a High Court Judge. The appointment follows the elevation of Mr Justice McFarlane to the Court of Appeal. Mr Moor, 52, was called to the Bar by the Inner Temple in ...