Making Sense of Section 25 Notice (Landlord and Tenants Act 1954) The Parliament of UK passed and made the Landlord and Tenants Act part of the law in 1954. The purpose behind the implementation of the Act was to make sure that the state is able to grant and govern the obligations and rights that …
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FPR Practice Direction 36V: Pilot Scheme for the Use of Virtual Judges for Contested Divorce
As part of the drive towards digitalisation of the Family Court, a new Family Procedure Rules Practice Direction has been published that sets out the pilot scheme for the use of virtual judges for contested divorce cases. The scheme is being piloted in Bristol and will run for 1 year. Straightforward, uncontested divorce cases will …
MoJ refuses to publish research on unrepresented defendants
Solicitors have expressed disbelief at the government’s decision to sit on research about unrepresented defendants in Crown courts. Labour peer Lord Beecham (Jeremy Beecham) asked the Ministry of Justice when it intends to publish a report on issues faced by courts and practitioners as a result of cases in which defendants are unrepresented. However, a …
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Resolution renews calls for reforming divorce law
Nigel Shepherd said it is time to ‘end the blame game’ and said the government must not let Brexit get in the way of it acting quickly to ensure there are no more cases like Owens. Mr Shepherd said: ‘In the face of this overwhelming support for a change in law to allow for no fault …
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Finding fault, family law reform and more – Marilyn Stowe Blog
A week in family law Following swiftly on from the Court of Appeal’s judgment in the Owens case, interim findings from research exploring how the current divorce law works in practice have been published. Key findings of the research include that the majority of divorces are based on ‘fault’, i.e. blaming one spouse for the …
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Robin Thicke and Paula Patton ‘close to custody agreement’ – Daily Mail
Robin Thicke and Paula Patton are ‘close’ to reaching a formal custodial agreement over their young son, more than two years after finalising their divorce. TMZ claim Patton, 41, has granted her ex-husband more time with six-year old Julian, the former couple’s only child, in a bid to ease the ’emotional strain’ their protracted legal …
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EXCLUSIVE: Against all odds! Phil Collins expected to testify in nasty divorce battle between ex-wif…
Rocker Phil Collins is expected to be called to testify in an upcoming trial in Miami where his ex-wife, with whom he patched things up and currently lives, will be trying to save her fortune from her latest soon-to-be ex-husband. The five-day trial scheduled to start April 24 is a part of ex-wife Orianne Mejjati’s …
National Audit Office publishes findings of its investigation into closure of ‘Child Support Agency’
The key findings of this investigation are: It is taking the Department longer than expected to close 1993 and 2003 scheme cases. By September 2016 the Department had closed 33% of active cases – those with continuing payments, against an expectation of 50%. The number of cases where the Department needs to finalise arrears before closure …
Does using social media lead to divorce?
California Private Investigator Heavy social media users enlarge their circle of friends, seek out old flames… Our investigations show that Twitter and Facebook reveal heavy social media users are more likely to cheat on their spouse… We have handled hundreds of cheating spouse cases, and have handled clandestine Internet investigations on a daily basis for …
Lancaster police officer in perjury trial was nervous of civil litigation, assistant DA testifies – …
Lancaster city police Sgt. Raymond Corll grew nervous of civil litigation after he was informed the district attorney’s office would withdraw charges in a March 2014 arrest he made, according to testimony Tuesday in his perjury trial. It was the second day of the trial to determine whether Corll, 55, lied under oath in the …