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Contact, Ultra-Orthodox Judaism, and a Transgender Parent
This is a post by Emily Ward. Emily is a barrister based at Broadway House Chambers and is Deputy Head of the Family Team. She practises in all areas of family law, and has a particular interest in matrimonial finance and complex children cases. Emily...
Behind Closed Doors – ‘Best Interests’ review
Here is a story, based on reality. Esti is a Charedi woman, a member of a small, tight-knit group at the very religious end of Judaism. The mother of three children, she is left by her husband Yossi. After separation he becomes less observant, letting the children...
Legal divorce and amicable ancillaries
Once, back when I was a full-time solicitor, I was telephoned for a divorce by a nice married couple. They were sitting at the kitchen table in one of their houses, having been separated for a number of years and each was happily living with a new partner. They were...
Court of Protection
The Open Justice Principle – the clue is in the title…
A little while ago we wrote about a case called Cape v Dring. It wasn't a family case at all, in fact it was something to do with asbestos, and the reason we wrote about it was because it dealt with the principles that apply to applications for sight of documents...
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“I hurt you because I love you” – what did TV’s Silent Witness get right and wrong about the treatment of domestic violence in the family courts?
No one is ever going to give the BBC TV show Silent Witness any prizes for being particularly factually accurate (what do you MEAN forensic pathologists don’t actually run around solving crimes!?). But who cares, right? It’s good, dramatic telly. That was all well and...
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The two judgments of Mrs Justice Lieven are also now published here: https://t.co/xuP8d7y3J4
and here: https://t.co/40YYBJ05o8
(reporting restrictions /anonymisation decisions) (thanks to the broken link flagger, I deleted & am now reposting so can't @ you (from @alicetwaite) https://t.co/6hTkz29B9j