Family Homes become Legal Battlefield
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Date04 Sep 2019
Parents helping their children on to the property ladder are increasingly ending up in court. A recent article in The Times highlighted a growing trend of parents taking their children court to get money back after lending them money... Read More →
Using a mobile phone whilst driving
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Date27 Aug 2019
Case law – Director Of Public Prosecutions v Barreto This is an appeal by way of case stated from a decision of the Crown Court sitting at Isleworth quashing the respondent’s conviction for driving a motor vehicle while using a hand-held mobile telephone,... Read More →
Divorce courts at breaking point
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Date01 Jul 2019
Separated couples are facing a record wait to get divorced as a result of regional divorce centres trying to process a backlog of older cases, it has been revealed. Quarterly statistics covering January to March this year, published by the... Read More →
The “unoffical legalising of Cannabis”
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Date19 Jun 2019
CANNABIS use is being ‘unofficially legalised’ according to campaigners after new figures show up to nine out of ten people caught with the drug are never charged. In some areas just 12 per cent of people caught with the drug... Read More →
Changes in divorce law ahead!
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Date19 Jun 2019
“Call of support from all parties for landmark government bill” Could this finally be the end of “mudslinging” for divorcing couples? Divorcing couples will soon no longer have to make allegations about each other’s conduct, after a landmark bill was... Read More →
Cases March 2019
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Date13 Mar 2019
R v R A domestic violence incident, which took place in a bar in Brighton, faced our client and if found guilty he could have received a term of custody imprisoned. Careful analysis of the evidence, particularly the cctv, showed... Read More →
Police voluntary interviews
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Date22 Oct 2018
The police are increasingly using this type of interview which can take place in your home or a police station or custody suite. It means that an allegation has been made of a criminal nature and you are a suspect... Read More →
Is the divorce “meal ticket for life” going to be a thing of the past?
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Date19 Oct 2018
Maintenance Payments to ex-wives of the “well to do” A recent report shows that, no longer does the wife have an entitlement to a “meal ticket for life” in wealthy divorce cases. This has been highlighted in the case of... Read More →
Divorce Law: Court blunder – error on thousands of FORM E’s
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Date24 Feb 2016
Thousands of couples who have settled their divorce in the last 20 months may have to re-open negotiations because a critical fault has been found in software to calculate financial terms – potentially inflating financial worth of a party It is... Read More →
Judge slams blatant dishonesty
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Date09 Dec 2015
A High Court Judge has said that a costs judgement against a dishonest party should act as a deterrent to others considering deceiving the Court. Sir Peter Singer said the husband in a divorce settlement case, named as Clive Joy-Morancho,... Read More →