9-1-1: If you ever divorce, Michael is the ex you want

Athena had doubts about her relationship with Bobby in 9-1-1 Season 2. Michael proved he is certainly the ex you want if you ever get divorced. Not all marriages work out. 9-1-1 brought us that fact immediately in the first season. Michael admitted to Athena that he was gay and it was time that he got …

Access to justice increasingly only for the few, Law Society warns ministers

Home > News Law Society publishes LASPO review subsmission Public access to the justice system has never been so restricted, the Law Society has warned as it filed  its submission to government, highlighting the “devastating consequences” of cuts to publicly funded legal advice. In its response to the Ministry of Justice’s review of the Legal …

Celebrities do everything better than us – even divorce

Gwyneth Paltrow has a lot to answer for, and I’m not talking about her top tip about vagina steam cleaning. In 2014, when announcing her split from Chris Martin, her husband of ten years, Paltrow released a statement in which she coined the phrase ‘conscious uncoupling’. Paltrow wrote, “It is with hearts full of sadness …

Shared ownership: Problems halved or doubled?

Image copyright Thomas Paris Image caption Thomas Paris says that shared ownership suited his circumstances Thomas Paris was fed up. He was living in a “horrible ground floor flat” in Bristol and paying rent to a landlord with little inclination to spruce up the one-bedroom home. “I was sick of asking for things to be …

Divorce rate falls by over half among newlyweds

Home > News ‘This is a real good news story’: Sir Paul Coleridge, Marriage Foundation UK divorce rates among newlyweds have dropped to their lowest levels in thirty years, according to new analysis by the Marriage Foundation. The proportion of couples divorcing after three years has more than halved since rates peaked in 1993. For …