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Family analysis: A 75% costs order made against the father by Nicholas Allen KC (sitting as a deputy High Court judge) in long-running private law...
Family analysis: Family Procedure Rules 2010 (FPR 2010), Practice Direction (PD) Update No 1 of 2026 has been issued setting out amendments to several...
Family analysis: In the first instance decision in these proceedings, the wife successfully applied to set aside a financial remedy order made in...
This week's edition of the Family weekly highlights includes analyses of two Court of Appeal decisions considering reliance on the evidence of an...
Procedure—Schedule 1 to the Children Act 1989This Practice Note sets out the procedural requirements in relation to an application under Schedule 1 to...
Applications under the Protection from Harassment Act 1997This Practice Note explains the six criminal offences that may be committed under the...
Striking out a statement of caseThis Practice Note explains the court's power to strike out a statement of case. It summarises the grounds on which a...
The grounds on which a marriage is voidA void marriage is one that will be treated by the court as never having taken place. The grounds on which a...
Do paralegals have a right of audience in the Family Court? If so, what is the authority for this?Section 12 of the Legal Services Act 2007 (LSA 2007) defines ‘reserved legal activities’ which, inter alia, include ‘the exercise of a right of audience’.LSA 2007, s 13 sets out those who are entitled
Priority between loss reliefs in loss making companiesWhy does it matter?A company that is a member of a group and has incurred any of the types of losses available for surrender by way of group relief may, without any further rules, have more than one way in which to use the loss. There are a
If a rentcharge is shown as being informally exonerated on title information, does this apply to the current registered owner? Or does the informal exoneration only apply to the parties to the document which informally exonerated the rentcharge?This Q&A considers the situation where, at some
Late payment penalties—inheritance taxWhile interest often accrues on overdue tax, the late payment of certain taxes may also attract a penalty. For information on the interest accruing on overdue tax, see Practice Notes: IHT—payment deadlines on death—Interest on IHT and Interest on late paid
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