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Hit on the head by an old chestnut
The hoary chestnut, the ‘meal ticket for life’, has fallen from the media and hit us squarely on the head again. This time, the impetus is a Supreme Court case called Mills v Mills. Back when it reached the Court of Appeal, one of my colleagues here on the...
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Supreme Court emphasises councils’ duties to inform parents fully about s. 20
"Parents with parental responsibility always have a qualified right to object and an unqualified right to remove their children at will (subject to any court orders about where the child is to live). Section 20 gives local authorities no compulsory powers over parents...
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Family Court Reporting Watch Roundup
Correcting, clarifying or commenting on media reports of family court cases Explaining or commenting on published judgments of family court cases Highlighting other transparency news MEDIA (MIS)REPORTS OF FAMILY COURT CASES BBC News and the Telegraph - We commented on...
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Hit on the head by an old chestnut
The hoary chestnut, the ‘meal ticket for life’, has fallen from the media and hit us squarely on the head again. This time, the impetus is a Supreme Court case called Mills v Mills. Back when it reached the Court of Appeal, one of my colleagues here on the...
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Supreme Court emphasises councils’ duties to inform parents fully about s. 20
"Parents with parental responsibility always have a qualified right to object and an unqualified right to remove their children at will (subject to any court orders about where the child is to live). Section 20 gives local authorities no compulsory powers over parents...
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Are ‘Thousands misusing abuse orders to get legal aid?’
Twitter commentators asked questions last week of a BBC headline: Thousands misusing abuse orders to get legal aid, says parenting charity And the 'click-bait' opening sentence of the story itself: Families Need Fathers says parents are being encouraged by some...
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Why the Court of Protection gave permission for blood samples to be taken in Skripal poisoning case
The alleged poisoning of Sergei Skripal, a former Russian spy now living in England, and his daughter Yulia, in Salisbury earlier this month has been prominently reported in the news. Investigations into the nature of the military-grade nerve agent allegedly used on...
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Flying under the Radar: Experiencing the Court of Protection Transparency Pilot as an academic researcher
This is a guest post by Gillian Loomes, a PhD researcher at the University of Leeds Law School Earlier this year, I spent a month attending hearings in the Court of Protection (CoP) as a public observer. This was part of my PhD (a socio-legal study examining how the...
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Re Nichol: an unsent text message as a valid will
UPDATE 18 October - I've added a footnote to discuss some points which have been raised in Twitter conversations following my original post. On 11 October 2017, this headline appeared on the BBC news website. The story naturally aroused a lot of interest and...
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