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LASPO and article 6 – a huge case
The President has given his judgment in Q v Q, and it is a helluva read. If you want the “Too Long: Didn’t Read” version – in a case where the Judge concludes that it is necessary for a party to be...
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if legal aid is being refused to people such as this mother I am satisfied...
This is a report of a short judgment from Her Honour Judge Hallam sitting in Middlesbrough, building on a decision from District Judge Reed in the same Court. Huge credit to both of them for calling...
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Re D (part 2) a damp squid
The President’s judgment in Re D (part 2) is up. The blog post about part 1 is here:- http://suesspiciousminds.com/2014/11/03/everyone-really-ought-to-read-re-d/ Re D is the case in which parents...
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really expensive legal researchers
Lindner v Rawlins 2015 http://www.familylaw.co.uk/news_and_comment/lindner-v-rawlins-2015-ewca-civ-51#.VNymu_msVic In this case, the Court of Appeal were dealing with an appeal from a husband...
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No broad presumption in favour of a natural parent
The Court of Appeal in Re E-R (A child) 2015 had to deal with a very emotionally difficult case. [Don’t ask me why they call the case “Re E-R a child, but then use T as the child’s codename...
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IS v Director of Legal Services 2015
Many other people will be writing about this case, but I’ll just give the bit for the family lawyers and Court of Protection lawyers (since it touches on capacity cases). Really important for the...
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Re-e-wind, when the crowd say Bo Selecta!
(I had to go back and google to make sure I hadn’t used this before as a title – I had not, but I had hankered after it here...
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The ‘evidence of domestic violence within 2 years’ Regulation found unlawful
I am struggling to think of a piece of legislation that has had as many successful challenges to the legality of Regulations issued under it as the much-beloved LASPO (Legal Aid, Sentencing and...
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Human Rights claims and statutory charge – an answer? Sort of
In the words of Erik B and Rakim It’s been a long time, I shouldn’ta left you, without a strong rhyme to step to But now, to paraphrase the one-hit wonder gangster rapper from Leicester, “Return...
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It is always nice to see a judgment from Sir James Munby, and this one has everything, including the title above, which I intend to steal and deploy at every available opportunity. (The fact that...
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