Public Law News

The President of the Family Division has issued a circular dealing with domestic abuse and containing a new Practice Direction (PD) 12J...

Last week Jemma Dally, Head of our International Child Care Team and expert in adoption and surrogacy was a panellist at Interlaw Diversity Forum’s......

We are delighted to announce that Peggy Ray and Trudi Featherstone have again been included in the 2017 Citywealth Leaders List. Thomas Brownrigg has......

When couples divorce, issues to do with what property should be considered to be part of the matrimonial ‘pot’ can be difficult and emotive...

Clarity on this matter is provided in the case of Wolverhampton City Council v JA and others . In this case the Local Authority issued care proceedings...

The post-nuptial agreement (post-nup) is similar to the pre-nuptial agreement (pre-nup) in the way that it spells out how a couples assets are to be...

Unreasonable behaviour is one o f the most common grounds for divorce, the Court were recently faced with a petition where it had to...

In Birch v Birch [2017] UKSC 53 the Supreme Court was very recently asked to consider whether the courts can revisit a final consent order...

Following the Queen's speech to Parliament on 21 June 2017, we revisit the topic of what the likely effects of Brexit will be upon family law in the UK...

Last week, Mr Justice Jackson – who in September last year was praised for his efforts in delivering an age-appropriate judgment containing an emoji...