The deputy president of the Supreme Court, Baroness Hale, reiterated her call for divorce law to be reformed in an article in the Times on 9th April 2015. Her comments came 20 years after she first proposed reform of the current law when she was a member of the Law Read more…
A man has won damages of £39,000 from his ex wife for being led into believing a child conceived through IVF was his. In an unprecedented decision made on 20th March the Judge at the Central London County Court ordered the ex wife to pay compensation for the “distress and Read more…
The case of the “Cowshed Cinderella” was widely reported in the media following a final decision of Cardiff High Court on 25th February 2015. The media interest sadly arose because it involved a dispute between parents and their daughter. The parents, Tegywn and Mary Davies, own a dairy farm in Read more…
On 11th March judgement was handed down in the Supreme Court in a financial case arising out of a divorce which was made final in 1992. Most people, quite understandably, believe that once a divorce is finalised – when Decree Absolute is granted – that is the end of the Read more…
The Resolution Manifesto for change in the family justice system covers 6 key areas. We will now look in more detail at the proposals. Protect vulnerable people going through separation This proposal relates to two issues: the availability of some initial advice for people going through a separation and changes Read more…
On 23rd February 2015 Resolution, formerly the Solicitors’ Family Law Association, launched a Manifesto for family law. The aim of the Manifesto is to put pressure on the Government to make changes in six areas of the family justice system. Resolution was established as the Solicitors’ Family Law Association in Read more…
On 22nd January 2015 the High Court ruled in favour of the Government in a judicial review of the rules on legal aid entitlement for victims of domestic abuse. The challenge focussed on whether the evidence of domestic violence required to obtain legal aid in family cases is so inflexible Read more…
That was certainly the view of a French family judge who refused to allow a couple to name their daughter “Nutella” after the chocolate hazelnut spread. In France, if is considered giving a child name which is not their interest, the state prosecutor can refer the case to the family Read more…
In the blog entitled “Access to Justice” dated 7th November 2014 (www.tayloremmet.co.uk/blogs/access-to-justice/) it was reported that Sir James Munby, the President of the Family Division of the High Court, had expressed his frustration with the legal aid system in a case in which a three year old boy had been Read more…
A Law Commission consultation paper entitled ‘Simplification of Criminal Law: Kidnapping and Related Offences’ published on 20th November 2014 makes two recommendations which, if made into law, will have grave consequences for parents who take their own children out of the country without the other parent’s consent. Family law, which Read more…