New Delhi: With the National Litigation Policy in a limbo for years, the government remains the biggest contributor to litigation in India despite Narendra Modi-led government’s resolve to bring down such cases. The latest statistics reveal that at least 2000 new cases, instituted by the Central government and its various departments, add up every week …
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Fewer people are getting divorced in England and Wales than at any time since the law was liberalised in 1971, according to data published by the Office for National Statistics on Wednesday. In total, 101,055 opposite sex couples got divorced in 2015, the lowest number since the number of divorces shot up from 74,437 in …
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Home > News Consultation on the draft guidelines runs until 13 September 2017 The Sentencing Council has published proposed new guidelines for sentencing offenders guilty of child cruelty. The guidelines cover three offences: cruelty to a child, causing or allowing a child to die or suffer serious physical harm, and failing to protect a girl …
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The Supreme Court has found Shell E & P Ireland was acting in civil contempt of court orders when, nine years ago, it entered on to commonage lands at Rossport located on the modified route for the Corrib gas onshore pipeline. A three-judge Supreme Court on Wednesday overturned as “incorrect” a 2010 High Court finding …
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When city council debates ways to fix a “mangled” part of the Southwest Area Plan Tuesday, they’ll do more than deal with London’s largest tract of undeveloped land. They’ll also confront a stubborn city hall pattern that’s affected London for decades: sound urban-planning advice is offered, politicians ignore it, and London lurches from one economically …
IFLAS will use arbitration, which is an out-of-court resolution system, sometimes known as private judging. Arbitrators are trained to adjudicate and resolve disputes. Many will be retired or part-time judges. All IFLAS arbitrators will be experienced lawyers used to dealing with international family law disputes. Among the benefits of arbitration are that the parties can …
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Home > News Paras 5.1 to 5.6 replaced by new paras 5.1 to 5.2 Sir James Munby, the President of the Family Division, has issued the following circular. On 4 May 2017 I handed down judgment In the matter of a Ward of Court [2017] EWHC 1022 (Fam). It related to the question whether police …
In circumstances where one parent seeks permission from the other to take a child on holiday but permission is not forthcoming, then an application can be made to the Family Court for a Specific Issue Order. This type of court application would ask the court for authority to remove the child from England and Wales …
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Over the past decade, London has become renowned worldwide as the best place to divorce for the less wealthy spouse. Dubbed the “divorce capital” of the world, there have been many cases going through London’s courts involving large settlements, some consisting of hundreds of millions of pounds. The latest divorce case involving large sums …
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Darrow Montgomery/FileFor a tiny street lined predominantly with colorful, two-story townhouses, Richardson Place NW has over the past several months experienced outsize drama. Last year, a new kind of housing arrived on the Truxton Circle block. Perturbed by how this project could change their way of life, residents organized and collectively cried foul. Now those …