October 2024 / 26 posts found
Selling The House After Divorce: Letting Go and Moving Forward
Selling the house after divorce can be a deeply emotional process. With a lot of my clients, especially in today’s market, selling the house is not their choice. Due to financial reasons, it is often the only choice, which makes selling their home even harder. Selling the house can feel like you’re letting go of more than just a physical space. You’re also saying goodbye to a chapter of your life. But it’s important to remember that it’s also the start of a brand new chapter and choosing to look at it as an opportunity for growth can empower you […]
The Guardian view on the family courts: the first principle must be safety
The 10th anniversary of the murder of Claire Throssell’s two young sons, Jack and Paul, is a horrifying reminder of the catastrophic consequences that can follow when the family justice system makes mistakes. The serious case review that followed their deaths, in a house fire deliberately started by their father, concluded that the court should have considered suspending the boys’ contact with him. Ms Throssell had left the family home due to domestic violence and had warned that he had told her he could understand why men killed their children. Case reviews are supposed to be learned from. But a decade later, […]
Ministry of Justice Family Court Quarterly Statistics show largely improving picture – Family Law Week
On 26 September 2024 the Ministry of Justice published its quarterly statistics for April to June 2024, highlighting: “Highest number of private law cases closed since 2014. The number of private law (Children Act) cases closed increased 17% compared to the equivalent quarter in 2023. On average, care proceedings were quicker with more disposals within 26 weeks. The average time for a care or supervision case to reach first disposal was 41 weeks in April to June 2024, down 3 weeks from the same quarter in 2023. 32% of cases were disposed of within 26 weeks – up 3 percentage […]
Cauda equina syndrome: mitigating risk for a high-litigation profile condition
Cauda equina syndrome (CES) is a devastating spinal condition. A 2019 UK report highlighted that 23% of litigation claims for spinal disease in England related to CES. Between 2008 and 2018, NHS Resolution received 827 claims for CES related incidents – 340 were settled with damages. This has cost the UK NHS just over £186 million. Further impact manifests in clinicians practising defensive medicine in the face of such conditions with high-litigation profiles. The UK National Institute of Health and Care Excellence (NICE), working with the UK Medical Protection Society (MPS) recently made changes to guidelines in 2018 in an […]
Tough Love for Woman with Lack of Self-Love
From a reader: I have let go of my divorce anger and I can tell you that my life did not get better. It seems to get worse and worse. I feel trapped… like maybe I deserve to be mistreated by everyone around me. I have such a lack of self-love. Being picked up and then thrown down has damaged my ability to trust men. My self-worth and esteem have been taken to astounding lows. I feel like no one could ever love someone like me. I still hurt even as the anger has subsided. I guess some wounds can’t […]