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This week’s edition of the Family weekly highlights includes details of the updated MyHMCTS financial remedy cases guidance. Recent judgments on an...
Private Client analysis: The Court of Appeal allowed the parents’ appeal and appointed them as HB’s health and welfare deputies, rejecting the...
Private Client analysis: The Court of Protection dismissed Camden’s appeal against findings that BW lacked capacity to decide whether to consent to...
Private Client analysis: The Honourable Mr Justice Hayden clarified both the Court of Protection’s role where a complainant may lack capacity to...
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...
The grounds on which a marriage is voidThis Practice Note sets out the grounds on which a marriage is void. It covers marriages not valid under the Marriage Acts 1949 to 1986, eg the parties are within the prohibited decrees. It covers cases where at the time of the marriage either party was already
Is a divorce petition a public document and can anyone request a copy? If not, is there anything to prevent a party to a divorce from giving copies of the petition to a third party such as an employer?Once the decree absolute has been pronounced in relation to a divorce, it is a matter of public
In divorce proceedings if the applicant is delaying applying for the conditional order or final order is the respondent able to apply and if so what is the procedure?This Q&A has assumes for the purposes of this reply that the application for a matrimonial order was made on or after 6 April 2022 and
What is the difference between an appeal and a review?What is an appeal?An appeal in insolvency proceedings is no different to an appeal in normal litigation. An appeal will be allowed only if the appeal court is satisfied that the decision of the lower court was 'wrong' or 'unjust because of a
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