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From garage to unicorn – Employment law lessons for scaling tech teams
Catherine Bourne
21 January 2021
Family mediation in a pandemic – the challenges and opportunities for separating couples
The past year has caused each of us to reflect on what is most important in our lives. Family. Friends. Freedom. It has also made us look forward, to life post-pandemic; and this, along with the pressures of lockdown, home-schooling, and everything else 2020 had to chuck at us, has understandably resulted in lots of couples deciding to go their separate ways.
6 January 2021
The legal position of international surrogacy in England and Italy and the recognition of foreign parental orders
Connie Atkinson, Senior Associate at Kingsley Napley, and Veronica Dindo, Solicitor at LawLab studio legale, look at the legal position in England & Wales and Italy and the recognition of foreign orders relating to the birth of children born following a surrogacy arrangement abroad.
5 January 2021
The tug of war for Trustees in Divorce
With Divorce Day today (Monday, January 6) when supposedly solicitors across the country expect to be fielding record enquiries from couples unhappy in their marriage, Abby Buckland (partner) and Alexandra Bishop (associate) in our Family & Divorce team consider the role of trusts and trustees in the divorce process in an article originally published by WealthBriefing.
14 December 2020
It's the final countdown...to Brexit
Four and a half years after the Brexit referendum, and almost a year after the UK left the European Union, Brexit is almost here. As matters stand, at 11pm on 31 December 2020, the UK is set to fall out of a number of mutually applicable EU regulations, with no replacement in place.
11 December 2020
Legal Services Payment Orders: Equal footing for the divorcing couple?
As practitioners, we know that clients are often surprised to learn that, when it comes to dividing up the family assets upon divorce, not only does it not matter in whose name the assets are, but also the court can order them to pay their spouse’s legal fees during the legal proceedings.
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