Thousands of women in unhappy marriages are choosing not to divorce, a study has found. With diminishing chances of winning a bumper share of a husband’s wealth, many wives now prefer to try to rebuild their marriage rather than risk a break-up. And fast-rising numbers of successful professional and business women are increasingly reluctant to …
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Exponential growth of litigation funding in 2018
Quite apart from having to fund what seems an insatiable appetite from your own advisers for fees, court costs and other outlays, you can never be sure you will win the case. If you are unlucky enough to lose, the nightmare gets worse – you find that on top of all your legal costs, you …
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Five “Highly Pertinent” Questions: Discrimination, Contact and the Family Court following Re M (Chil…
Home > Articles Hassan Khan and Charlotte Baker, barristers at 4 Paper Buildings, present a framework for approaching cases where issues of human rights and discrimination arise in contact cases. Hassan Khan and Charlotte Baker, barristers, both of 4 Paper Buildings Re M [2017] EWCA Civ 2164 concerned a transgender father’s application for direct contact …
cohabiting couples trend in UK leaves many without legal rights if the relationship fails
Cohabitation is the fastest-growing “family type” in the UK — more than doubling from 1.5 million in the mid-Nineties to 3.3 million last year. However, couples thinking about moving in together should also consider what are likely to be the harsh realities of splitting up. Many people enjoying a new relationship don’t want to think …
Thinking About Selling Your Diamond After Divorce?
If you are considering selling your diamond after divorce, here are some really good things to consider, as well as some great information on how to make sure the experience is safe, and that you are happy with the result! An Insider’s Guide on Selling Your Diamond Jewelry You have diamond jewelry sitting in your …
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South Carolina Officials Predict Litigation Over Big Lottery Error
STATE LOTTERIES | Lottery officials in South Carolina told an oversight panel on Thursday that the state may end up paying $33 million due to a glitch in December where 42,000 winning Holiday Cash Add-A-Play tickets were accidentally printed. If South Carolina proceeds with paying the prize money, lottery officials say the state will likely …
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Lakeland nursing home lost Medicaid contract; now its license is in litigation
Marilyn Meyer @marilyn_ledger LAKELAND — First, the 120-bed Oakbridge Healthcare Center lost its federal contract to take care of Medicaid and Medicare patients and had to send most of its patients to other facilities. Now, its state nursing-home license is in litigation. The license was due for renewal Dec. 31, but the state Agency for Health Care Administration …
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Housewife awarded £453,000,000 in divorce battle ‘wouldn’t have got same payout abroad’
A barrister said the case shows why London is viewed as the world’s ‘divorce capital’ (Picture: PA) ‘Where such a vast fortune is created during the marriage, the financially weaker party expects a huge award. ‘This recognises the idea that each spouse contributes to the other the best they can, without discriminating between the person …
The Chief Inspector’s report on the Home Office’s approach to learning from immigration litigation h…
It is important that the Home Office, with support from the Government Legal Department (GLD), manages litigation claims made against decisions and actions by its Borders, Immigration and Citizenship System (BICS) business areas both efficiently and effectively. In addition to being an opportunity to acknowledge errors and provide appropriate remedies to claimants, there are the …
Recent Developments in “Fake Litigation”
by Paul Alan Levy In the past few days there have been a couple of significant developments in the area of ”fake litigation” directed at consumer commentary – the use of fraudulent litigation techniques to obtain judicial relief against consumer criticisms of businesses without giving fair notice to the critic, and often using methods calculated …