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David Burrows is a solicitor advocate, trainer and writer; a founder contributor to Family Court Practice; consultant with Heaney Watson, solicitors; the author of Evidence in Family Proceedings (Family Law, 2016). He is a New Law Journal columnist and regular contributor to Family Law and other publications.

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In this article, David Burrows analyses the draft bill Transforming the Response to Domestic Abuse: Consultation Response and Draft Bill January 2019, which was published by the Home Office and the...

David Burrows assesses the government’s proposals for an overhaul of divorce law, and supplies some suggestions of his own.

Family procedural law is not as clear as it might be over when ‘a person who is not a party to the proceedings’ (a non-party) can be compelled to produce documents and other information into family...

The recent ‘meal ticket for life’ Supreme Court case of Mills v Mills, [2018] All ER (D) 107 (Jul) (18 July 2018) operates on three levels:variation of periodical payments (‘meal ticket for...

Clarification of a court judgmentThe recent Court of Appeal decision of Re P (A Child) [2018] EWCA Civ 720 (11 April 2018) concerned T (born we are told ‘in 2000’: ie she is 17 or over, see the...

Working towards an end to domestic abuseA year after Minister of Justice Truss’s proposals for the protection of complainants of domestic abuse from direct questioning by their alleged abusers saw...

Is Parliamentary and other Government activity in the last week evidence of movement towards a Domestic Violence and Abuse Bill; and will we see some real results from the Home Secretary – since Lord...

Attempt at service by emailMr Barton is a seasoned litigator. He first sued, and eventually settled with, lawyers who had dealt with financial relief proceedings for him. The defendants in the...

What is ‘non-molestation’? How do family courts, by order, deal with ‘molestation’, as it is now defined in law? What is ‘domestic violence’ or (if different) ‘domestic abuse’? Each of these different...

Latvian children, care proceedings and Art 15 The case of G and H (Children: Article 15 Brussel II Revised Regulation) [2018] EWFC 60 is a troubling one: including the parties, the children’s...

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