Goodman Ray acted on behalf of the successful father in High Court proceedings remitted from the Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court in relation to an application for the summary return of four children to Spain under the Hague Convention. The decision arose out of the alleged abduction of...
Jemma Dally, Partner at Goodman Ray, represented the commissioning parents in the Case of Re WT [2014] EWHC 1303. This case highlights again the areas of difficulty that parents who embark on surrogacy arrangements abroad need to be alive to and gives important guidance for those considering entering into a...
Jackson J has granted an application by the non biological mother and co-parent of a child for a free-standing declaration of her article 8 right to family life. Jemma Dally, Partner in the Adoption and International Child Care team represented Ms L. The case concerns a child who was born...
Mediation Information and Assessment Meetings (MIAMs) will become compulsory in April 2014. Currently Practice direction 3A of the Family Procedure Rules requires anyone wishing to make an application in family proceedings (Children and Finance following relationship breakdown) to attend a MIAMs. However this is not currently compulsory. When the Children...
As result of a disappointing uptake in Family Mediation following the removal of legal aid for family disputes last April the Ministry of Justice, together with Simon Hughes MP and the Minister of State for Justice and Civil Liberties, is holding a series of roundtable web chats with mediators, family...
We are pleased to announce that Priya Palanivel and Laura Dalgliesh have been selected to sit on the Resolution Standards Committee. Resolution is a national practitioners group with 6,500 members who are family lawyers and other professionals committed to the constructive resolution of family disputes. Resolution members follow a Code...
From the 25 November 2013 the Child Support Agency stopped taking on any new cases. It will continue to handle its existing cases. New cases will need to be made to the Child Maintenance Service, who will apply a new ‘gross income’ scheme. Child maintenance is financial support that helps...
In a landmark judgment formally announced today, the Supreme Court has ruled that a child can have a habitual residence separate and distinct from that of the parent with whom they are living. The decision which is likely to have an impact on cases concerning the international movement of children...
Goodman Ray Mediation is delighted to support Family Dispute Resolution Week 2013. The week is designed to raise awareness of alternative methods to litigation for separating couples such as mediation, arbitration, negotiation, collaborative law and conciliation. Please click on the link to find see a video about this – https://vimeo.com/80055970
The Legal 500 for 2013 has just been published and Goodman Ray have a record number of lawyers listed. Not only is our children work commended, but our work on child abduction and matrimonial cases is also credited. The directory says: Goodman Ray is ‘one of the best child law...
