Our pick of recent news and decisions on dispute resolution procedures for construction claims. Round-up of Technology and Construction Court (TCC) practice and procedure news Pilot of the new disclosure regime – update Work on the proposed new disclosure regime continues. As mentioned in our Autumn 2017 briefing, (Proposals for new disclosure rules in the …
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DIVORCING couples with children sometimes worry about who is going to pay for their children’s college education after the divorce once their children graduates high school. They want a guarantee that their soon to be ex-spouse will share in the college expenses of their children. This is specially the case when the other spouse has …
“I was always afraid of the squid and whale fighting,” Jesse Eisenberg’s Walt tells his therapist in The Squid and the Whale, Noah Baumbach’s semi-autobiographical tale of two brothers caught in the middle of a nasty divorce between their literary parents. “I can only look at it with my hands in front of my face.” The …
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Regardless of who filed, many women feel overwhelmed as they begin to gather financial statements and documents. The more they learn about their financial status, the more embarrassed and ashamed they feel. They may even feel defeated. The first onset of emotions often stems from not being involved in the financial landscape during the marriage. …
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A woman’s fight for access to a widowed parent’s allowance is testing the rights of unmarried couples across the country at the supreme court’s first hearing in Belfast. The state’s refusal to pay Siobhan McLaughlin the benefit amounts to discrimination against children born out of wedlock, the UK’s highest court has been told. The special …
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Business News Digital Legal Top Stories By Chris Cooke | Published on Monday 30 April 2018 A Japanese internet service provider last week announced that it would voluntarily block its customers from accessing a number of piracy websites. This came after the country’s government urged such action while it considers how to formally instigate web-blocking …
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Private practice litigators are seeing increasing involvement of in-house lawyers on files they once had domain over. Many see it as an opportunity to support clients and in the meantime retain the larger matters over time. Mark Harrington is seeing more in-house lawyers showing up on files where they didn’t before, even on more complicated …
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No two marriages end the same way. But several of these issues play a big factor in all of them. Apr 24 2018, 7:28 PM Share It’s been said that those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. Considering this in the context of marriage, it’s smart to have an awareness of what causes the …
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After almost 20 years operating in just three jurisdictions, it’s time to expand Ontario’s mandatory mediation program across the province, Toronto mediator Victoria Romero tells AdvocateDaily.com. “The program is working, so I wonder why it hasn’t been made consistent throughout Ontario. It’s 2018,” says Romero, principal of the mediation firm VR Law. “How many more …
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(CNS): Over 830 people have already signed an online petition, created last week, objecting to three proposed government bills aimed at modernising Cayman Islands law surrounding marriage, divorce and family life. The campaign against the efforts that would, among a number of things, make divorce simpler comes largely from the Christian community. The petition calls …
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