All Family and children articles
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NewsEfficient service? MPs to probe family court system
Ministry of Justice and Department for Education officials will be grilled on why families are waiting up to a year for their cases to be resolved.
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NewsFamily judge lambasts 'obfuscatory disclosure'
Court's approach to £1.2m financial remedy order ‘necessitated by the husband’s dishonesty’.
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NewsFirm hire: Hall Brown Family Law appoints joint head of London office
Senior lawyer Priya Palanivel has spent much of her career working within a boutique family law firm environment.
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NewsMemory lane
Rising number of practitioners, single civil court fears, the need for a family court and extradition and the Stonehouse case: a stroll down Gazette memory lane.
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ProfileMy legal life: Mital Raithatha, Coram Children’s Legal Centre
Senior solicitor and head of education law, London.
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NewsFamily judge ‘wrong’ about overnight stays following rape finding
Order maintaining father's overnight contact 'tipped to the wrong side of the balancing scales', High Court finds.
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NewsFather does not have Article 6 right to lay advocate
Application suggested a 'fundamental misunderstanding' of right to fair trial, judge rules.
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NewsJudge slams lack of judicial diversity progress in family courts
Her Honour Judge Khatun Sapnara says there are plenty of black, Asian and minority ethnic lawyers with the requisite merit.
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NewsMother argues judge 'wrong' to allow overnight stays following rape findings
Fresh allegations are ‘plainly relevant to the child’s welfare in any risk assessment’, says counsel for mother.
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NewsNo-fault divorce: 'blame game' still rife, say family lawyers
New regime 'has led to more spouses littering financial statements with allegations of bad behaviour'.
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NewsVardags extends flexible working under new management
Ayesha Vardag's famed divorce boutique announces promotion of Manchester chief Emma Gill to managing partner.
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NewsHigh Court allows abuse victim to 'tell her story'
Court ‘profoundly sympathetic’ to mother in landmark transparency case who felt ‘let down’ by the family justice system.
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OpinionAdolescence is brilliant TV but Jamie should have sacked his brief
Realism of the portrayal of the criminal justice system in the Netflix series has been somewhat overlooked.
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NewsEmailing judgments without formal hand-down ‘unsatisfactory’
A judge at Wolverhampton family court emailed her judgment to a father, but fears it may have got lost in ‘junk’.
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OpinionLetters roundup
Branded a liar by the SRA, an AML juggernaut creating mayhem and asking the question: 'are lawyers needed?' Your letters to the editor.
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NewsAdoption case is set on stage
Play Too Many Books explores complexities of international adoption.