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When will the Supreme Court put us out of our Payne? (£)
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EDWARD DEVEREUX and ROB GEORGE Barristers Harcourt ChambersThere was a time not so long ago when almost anyone in the family justice system you asked would name international relocation law as the area of child law that was most urgently in need of reform. Then came the Court of Appeal’s decisions in
K v K (International Relocation: Shared Care Arrangement) [2011] EWCA Civ 793 [2012] 2 FLR 880 and
Re F (Relocation) [2012] EWCA Civ 1364 [2013] 1 FLR 645 which took much of the heat out of the relocation debate. Since then the pressure to reform relocation law has to some extent dissipated but in this article we argue that the need for a re-think remains as pressing as ever.
K v K in particular was a good first step reminding judges and practitioners that
Payne v Payne [2001] EWCA Civ 166 [2001] 1 FLR 1052 contains
guidance and is designed to...
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