17 December 2009 | Amanda Melton
The Supreme Court ruled in re I (A Child) [2009] UKSC 10, interpreting art 12.3 of Council Regulation (EC) No 2201/2003 ("Brussels II Revised"), that parties to child contact proceedings could opt in...
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16 December 2009 | Amanda Melton
Whilst family lawyers frequently tell their clients involved in contact and residence disputes that the Court's approach can produce singular results, the case of Re R (A Child) [2009] EWHC B38 (Fam)...
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14 December 2009 | Amanda Melton
In his foreword to "Relocation and Leave to Remove" a report published on 7 December 2009 and penned by The Custody Minefield, an internet resource for parents and families in children's disputes on relationship...
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14 December 2009 | Amanda Melton
In his address to the Association of Lawyers for Children at their annual conference in Manchester on Wednesday, 9 December 2009, Lord Justice Wall said that "the need for a powerful and properly resourced...
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14 December 2009 | Amanda Melton
Sir Mark Potter, President of the Family Division, has set up a committee to review the procedures of the Court of Protection ("CoP"), at the request of the Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice,...
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14 December 2009 | Amanda Melton
Mr Justice Hedley was so annoyed by the antics of Orkney Island Council ("OIC") and Cambridgeshire County Council ("CCC") that he declared "time-out" before delivering his judgement in the case of Re "I"...
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14 December 2009 | Amanda Melton
A paper published last week by Robert George and Ceridwen Roberts of Oxford University warns that the new legislation contained in the Children Schools and Families Bill ‘lacks sufficient clarity’,...
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9 December 2009 | Shimon Shaw
Today’s PRB was fairly boring. Unless you are a bank. Or a banker. Or a shareholder of a bank (which I suppose includes all of us).
So let’s get the bankers out of the way before looking at...
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4 December 2009 | Michael Delaney
The EU Council of Ministers has agreed proposals to adopt a revised Parental Leave Directive, meaning that parental leave after the birth or adoption of a child will increase for each parent from three...
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4 December 2009 | Michael Delaney
The Queen's Speech was given on 18 November 2009. While it outlined the Government's legislative programme for 2010, Parliament will have to be dissolved before 3 June 2010 – the last date that the next...
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