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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ALBANY — The Dougherty County Commission met Tuesday in a called meeting for an executive session to discuss pending litigation. That closed meeting was expected to last awhile because the county is involved in three active lawsuits: a suit before Fulton Superior Court in regard to the Lee County Medical Center, interim County Manager Mike …
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There are many reasons why a marriage might end in divorce (Picture: Liberty Antonia Sadler for Metro.co.uk) I recently befriended a man who has an open marriage. Although I couldn’t imagine this particular scenario for myself, it made me curious about marriage as a whole. ‘I had a panic attack before the ceremony’: 5 people …
HUNTINGTON – After Wisconsin became the first state to enact a law requiring disclosure of third parties funding litigation in the hope of sharing in damage awards with plaintiffs, observers following the issue have indicated that more states are likely to follow suit. “I think it is inevitable that, sooner or later, it is going …
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Families can only claim benefits for their first two children Campaigners have lost a High Court challenge to the government’s two-child limit on some benefits. Lawyers representing three families had argued that the policy was incompatible with human rights law. But a judge has ruled that limiting tax credits …
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