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The Second Wife Impact

Posted in stuff, tagged , , , , on May 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Andrew Commins, a colleague in chambers, has written an interesting article for Family Law Week on the impact of remarriage on variation applications by the ex spouse. I particularly like the mental image described in the extract from Delaney v Delaney [1991] 2 FLR 457, CA, that the court will deprecate “any notion that a former husband and extant [...]

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Just as you thought it was safe to go back in the courtroom…

Posted in stuff, tagged , , , , on April 28, 2010 | 1 Comment »

The snappily titled and easy to read Children Schools and Families Act 2010 has landed on our virtual desks. Not yet in force owing to the impending election (‘What election?’ I hear you say) the Bill made it through ‘wash-up’ and received Royal Assent only moments before Parliament was dissolved, to gasps of relief all [...]

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Social Workers: Arrogant and Enthusiastic Removers of Vegetarians?

Posted in stuff, tagged , , , on April 18, 2010 | 3 Comments »

I’m a bit slow off the mark this week but I do want to report this: Lord Justice Wall has been widely reported as criticising social workers for being “arrogant and enthusiastic removers of children from their parents”. It doesn’t look as if he will be a wallflower of a President, does it? . In [...]

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Wall LJ to be Appointed President of Family Division

Posted in stuff, tagged , on April 1, 2010 | 1 Comment »

Further to my previous post Lord Justice Wall is indeed to be appointed as President of the Family Division, taking over from Mark Potter on a date yet to be confirmed. POSTSCRIPT: See this extract from Hansard for no explanation at all regarding the delay in the announcement (hat tip to Brick, whose comment on [...]

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Tear Down The Wall…

Posted in stuff, tagged , , on March 23, 2010 | 2 Comments »

Charon QC is right. I have to comment on Jack Straw’s apparent reluctance to appoint Lord Justice Wall as the new President of the Family Division, reported on here by The Times. It is difficult to think of any reason for Mr Straw’s request that the appointment panel reconsider other than Wall LJ’s willingness to [...]

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Big Breasted Woman Appeals Court Decision

Posted in stuff, tagged , , , , on January 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

OK, so I lied – no big boobies here. But as they say in the playground: ‘Made you look, made you stare, made you lose your underwear’… . I’m a little puzzled by this article by Martin Evans at The Telegraph, entitled ‘Lesbian Mother Appeals Court Decision After Daughter Removed’. Having seen this re-tweeted on [...]

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