The Supreme Court has today given judgment on the case of Wyatt v Vince, involving a wife and husband divorced 22 years ago. In the intervening years, the Husband has made many millions of pounds in his green energy wind…
What does my divorce case number mean?
Should privacy or transparency have priority in the family court? The President of the family courts launched a consultation paper last week asking for responses on the role of the media in reporting family cases. As part of his report,…
International divorce: one million EU divorces a year
As Eurovision concludes for another year, and with European Parliamentary elections due to take place across Europe over the next three days, you may be interested to know that you have the opportunity to vote in a third European poll…
Can appropriate reviews make prenuptial agreements stick?
Katie Rainscourt, our managing partner, has recently been interviewed by Lexis on the topic of prenuptial agreements, which is reproduced below. This article was first published on Lexis®PSL Family on 13 March 2014. Click here for a free 24h…
Children and Families Act 2014
The Children and Families Bill received Royal Assent yesterday morning, on Thursday 13 March 2014, and is now law. I have previously written in this blog about the impact of this Act on family law in England and Wales, and…
Bargaining about needs in the shadows of family law
So the dust has started to settle on the newly minted Law Commission report, after last week’s media flurry. There were several themes in the report that particularly caught my eye, but most of all was this concept of “bargaining…
Divorce, fault and the future
I was asked this week about who exactly is divorcing. Not in a Daily Mail celebrity “WHO IS DIVORCING?” way but rather, which sectors of our society are choosing to divorce? A really interesting question. The implication behind the question…
The President visits Milton Keynes
Now from our perspective this has been a big week in Milton Keynes family law as the President of the Family Division, the top judge in family law, Sir James Munby, has come to visit us in Milton Keynes. The…
Milton Keynes and the future of divorce
Milton Keynes was chosen last week to be the UK pilot town for the driverless car: Vince Cable announced that a £1.5 million pilot scheme would start with 20 driverless vehicles in 2015 being available to take rail passengers to…
Arrangments for children on divorce, in the new single family court
In November 2011 the Family Justice Review was published. This was the work of an independent panel, headed up by David Norgrove, who had been asked by the government to consider the changes which should be made to make the…