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Guest post by James Keeley The rule of law keeps us from chaos. It accepts who we are as human beings embracing our ethnicity, our sexuality and our abilities as well as our limitations. Through it we are given the chance to speak freely so long as we do so without prejudice and without harming… Continue reading about The Rule of Law and Open Justice
The concept of “no fault divorce” has gained traction in recent years, but the recent case of Owens v Owens and the image it conjures up of a wife trapped in a loveless marriage has concentrated people’s minds on the issue. As the case heads towards a further appeal hearing in the Supreme Court, David… Continue reading about Family law: Mrs Owens – a divorce in 2017
Continuing his series discussing the impact on family law and practice of legal developments in other areas, David Burrows considers the effect of legal professional privilege in the context of advice given by lawyers to those engaged in family law disputes and the circumstances in which the right to confidentiality of such advice may be… Continue reading about Family Law No Island: Legal professional privilege and family law
Continuing his series discussing the impact on family law and practice of legal developments in other areas, David Burrows considers the grounds on which one party in proceedings may restrict the disclosure to one or more other parties of documents and other materials before the court, and the scope and procedure for doing so. Disclosure… Continue reading about Family Law No Island: Partial disclosure of material in family proceedings
It’s not often that Doritos, a corn-based tortilla-chip snack food, make it into the legal news, but they did so recently with quite a zing. Paul Magrath investigates. The excitable Daily Mail headline read almost like a headnote: ‘Gold digger’ in her twenties who married a school lollipop man, 76, forged his will and… Continue reading about Doritos-in-law: widow’s foiled attempt to make a packet with forged will
Weekly Notes, the ICLR roundup of recent legal news and commentary, is currently on holiday. We’ll resume publication in the next law term, which begins on Tuesday, 25th April. In the meantime, here’s an Easter-flavoured tale from the archives of the Business Law Reports (Bus LR). It’s all about that most festive of confections, the… Continue reading about Bad Faith Bunnies – A bitter/sweet Easter Tale
Brexit will have a decisive effect in altering the relationship between the case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU or ECJ) and that of England and Wales, but it would be a mistake to assume that European case law will shortly become irrelevant. Paul Magrath comments on the forthcoming Great… Continue reading about Is reporting EU case law now a waste of time?
Continuing his series discussing the impact on family law and practice of legal developments in other areas, David Burrows considers the origins of the legal aid statutory charge in an old common law remedy developed in cases by reference to which the statutory provisions should still be construed. Human Rights Act 1998 damages and legal… Continue reading about Family law no island: Statutory charge or Pyrrhic damages
In this guest post from the Transparency Project, barrister Lucy Reed explains the doctrine of precedent and how it works in practice, correcting a mistake made by more than one newspaper recently in reporting the financial dispute arising out of a divorce. On 27 February 2017 The Telegraph reported on an ongoing appeal in… Continue reading about “Setting a precedent” – what does it actually mean? (Transparency Project)
David Burrows continues his series discussing the impact on family law and practice of legal developments in other areas, with the first of two articles on the common law doctrine of precedent. 1. Precedent: a search for certainty in law Certainty and the law In his Sir David Williams lecture The Rule of Law 2016… Continue reading about Family law no island (5): Precedent — a search for certainty in law
