Family Law Hub

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  • Report presents the findings from 33 qualitative interviews with a range of professional participants including family judges, legal representatives, Cafcass guardians and social workers News, 16/04/2019, free
  • MacDonald J initially concluded that the judge's award exceeded the wife's housing need. However, following the circulation of his draft judgment, his attention was drawn to a significant material omission in the figures that had underpinned those conclusions, and he decided that the manner in which the judge chose to structure the disposition was not after all wrong, and the husband's appeal was dismissed. Judgment, 10/04/2019, free
  • The restored hearing of a judgment summons for the committal to prison of the former husband, for significant arrears of maintenance. Holman J was not yet willing to make a suspended order for committal and further adjourned the committal hearing. Judgment, 09/04/2019, free
  • Figures for October to December 2018 released. News, 29/03/2019, free
  • Because of an error by the court, who did not notice that the parties had not been separated for at least 2 years despite ticking that option on the divorce application form, the President ruled that the decrees nisi and absolute were voidable, not void. Judgment, 25/03/2019, free

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  • Recording of webinar first broadcast on 21st March 2019 Webcast, 26/03/2019, members only
  • Recording of webinar first broadcast on 6 March 2019. Presented by Matthew Warmoth, barrister at Fourteen. Webcast, 07/03/2019, members only
  • Tim Scott QC of 29 Bedford Row tries to make sense of what might happen to international family cases after 29th March next year and reviews a few recent key international finance cases. Recorded September 2018. Webcast, 07/10/2018, members only
  • Roshi Amiraftabi of 29 Bedford Row, reviews the key private children law cases, themes and practice developments from the past 12 months. Webcast, 31/05/2018, members only
  • Alexis Campbell QC and Charlotte Trace, of 29 Bedford Row, review the key financial remedy cases and themes from the past 12 months and look at how they will affect judicial thinking and your own cases in the year to come. Webcast, 16/03/2018, members only

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