For children of recently-divorced, or separated, parents, Christmas can be a difficult time. Seeing how 42% of marriages end in divorce and 48% of those involve at least one child, learning how to navigate new traditions isn’t uncommon. It’s a change that Fearne Cotton will be facing after the podcast host announced the breakdown of …
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The Civil Procedure Rules (CPR), which govern civil litigation in the English courts, have been updated to give greater effect to a landmark Court of Appeal ruling last year, Churchill v Merthyr Tydfil. In that case, the court found that judges have the power to ‘stay’ – or pause – court proceedings so that …
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It has been an assumption for years in costs budgeting in civil litigation: claimants start high and negotiate down, assuming there will be scope for ending up at the figure wanted all along. But have judges had enough of the game-playing? Two judgments in quick succession from Master Thornett have both criticised claimants’ overstated costs …
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The instance of mature couples divorcing is on the rise. Are over 50s less inclined to stay together than their parents, and what makes a ‘good uncoupling’? Vicki Milliken “I went through this process of feeling like my future had been stolen from me,” says 53-year-old Kate Christie about the end of her 22-year marriage. …
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I’d walk around on the verge of tears all day long, every day. I felt really scared. I felt sad. I felt angry. I felt like a failure. I felt worried about my young children. And, I felt very very alone. I’m referring to a time in my life several years ago, when I was …
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Employers like IBM that conduct layoffs while integrating more artificial intelligence into operations face potential exposure to age bias lawsuits if older workers are among the first to get a pink slip. Human resources departments increasingly have been adopting AI-powered tools to help streamline their business processes and efficiently complete tasks like drafting job descriptions …
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