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From garage to unicorn – Employment law lessons for scaling tech teams
Catherine Bourne
18 November 2022
The Domestic Abuse Act 2021 and the overlap between family and criminal proceedings
Some of the most difficult cases the legal system has to deal with span both the criminal and family courts, often at the same time. From a practitioner’s perspective understanding how the criminal and family regimes operate and overlap is essential in order to help clients navigate their way through these legally complex and emotive cases.
15 November 2022
Uncapping Bankers' Bonuses: Implications For Divorce Settlements
Couples going through or contemplating divorce, should consider how uncapping bankers' bonuses in the UK will affect financial settlements.
3 November 2022
National Fertility Awareness Week 2022
It’s National Fertility Awareness Week and this year’s theme is #Fighting4fertility. The aim of Fertility Network UK’s week of action is to make sure that fertility is talked about more openly in order to raise awareness, ensure that people touched directly or indirectly by infertility (which is likely to be most people!) have the information they need and to push for change in a number of areas.
27 September 2022
The great transparency debate – what do other states do?
The need for greater openness in the workings of the Family Courts v right to respect for the private and family lives of children and their parents is an ongoing and very lively debate. We are at a crossroads. The left-hand turn leads to greater access to Family Court hearings and in reporting on the evidence before the Court and the outcome of the proceedings.
23 September 2022
How to raise the menopause in divorce and financial proceedings
In my previous blog, "Divorce during the menopause - should I talk about it?" I suggested that for women who are seriously impacted by peri-menopause or menopause it might be advisable to raise your menopause within financial proceedings on divorce as a factor for consideration. Why? Because the court has a duty to consider all the facts of your case, including your individual needs and circumstances.
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