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26 March 2021

Talking to Myself in the Middle of a Sahara (part one)
What happens to the most vulnerable children in our society when there is a demand for regulated secure placements that cannot be met by supply? The funding and resource problems inherent in local...
Olivia Choudhury
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22 March 2021

The 1980 Hague Convention on Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction and British Overseas Territories – a colonial anachronism in need of reform?
Mehvish Chaudhry, Barrister, Harcourt ChambersJames Netto, Partner, The International Family Law GroupIn VB v TR [2020] EWHC 877 (Fam), Mostyn J was charged with dealing with an application for the...
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19 March 2021

Reforms set to bring marriage formalities into the 21st century
Mothers’ details will be included on marriage certificates for the first time from May 2021.The Government is set to reform the law around the information to be contained within marriage...
Sarah Green
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11 March 2021

IFLG's response to the FPRC's Consultation
The International Family Law Group LLP’s response to the FPRC's Consultation in relation to draft changes to the Family Procedure Rules arising from planned implementation of...
Michael Allum
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8 March 2021

Help separated parents ditch avoidance strategies that stop them resolving differences
The desire to avoid conflict with an ex is the primary reason that separated parents do not get to see their children.  That’s an eye-opening finding from a survey of 1,105 separated or...
Jane Robey
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8 March 2021

What is a Cohabitation Agreement, and do I need one?
Many couples, despite living together, never seek to legally formalise their living and financial arrangements.  They mistakenly believe that the concept of a ‘common law’ husband and wife...
Lucy Loizou Kristianna Beta
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2 March 2021

The suspension, during lockdown, of prison visits for children: was it lawful?
Jake Richards, 9 Gough ChambersThis article argues that the suspension on prison visits during this period and the deficiency of measures to mitigate the impact of this on family life and to protect...
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26 February 2021

A system that re-abuses victims is not a system fit for purpose
You don’t get four conjoined domestic abuse cases heard speedily by the President in the Court of Appeal - in the middle of a pandemic upending the family justice system - when just a few scattered...
Louise Tickle
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26 February 2021

The Family Solutions Initiative – a response to a system in crisis
The Family Solutions Group (‘FSG’) report, entitled What about me?: Reframing Support for Families following Parental Separation leaves us in no doubt as to the problems which are currently facing the...
Karen Barham Martin Kingerley QC Rhys Taylor
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24 February 2021

The need for proportionality and the ‘Covid impact’
Simon Wilkinson, Parklane PlowdenThe Covid-19 pandemic has infiltrated every aspect of our lives. Within the courts and tribunals service there has been a plethora of guidance since March 2020 which...
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