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Key takeaways from the Home Secretary’s Statement on Asylum Reforms: 30-months permission to stay for new claims and transitional arrangements for pending cases
Oliver Oldman
23 May 2018
Reflections on The Split – Episode 5: Affairs, betrayals and the personal nature of divorce
Episode 5 of the Split centres around Hannah and Nathan’s crumbling marriage following the disclosure of Nathan’s name being listed on an extra marital website. Like anyone who has just discovered their partner has been unfaithful, Hannah is determined to find out the extent of Nathan’s infidelity and she instructs a private detective, one whom she conveniently has instructed for her client Goldie. As the private detective remarks - “in this digital age, affairs are easier but it’s harder to hide them”.
22 May 2018
Less hide, more seek - divorce and financial transparency
It’s not only tax experts that need be alive to the new transparency requirement for company ownership in overseas territories, divorce lawyers will take a keen interest too.
New disclosure rules pushed through the House of Commons on 1 May 2018 will require British overseas territories, including the Cayman Islands, Bermuda and the British Virgin Islands, to publish company ownership registers by 31 December 2020.
17 May 2018
Reflections on The Split – Episode 4: Privacy and the Family Courts
This episode focuses on private information being placed in the public domain. The so-called ‘Indiana Ray’ website for ‘discreet’ extramarital affairs has been hacked with over 100,000 names being leaked online.
17 May 2018
The call for Equal Civil Partnerships - are we almost there?
Yesterday marked the end of a 4 year legal journey to the UK Supreme Court for Rebecca Steinfeld and Charles Keidan, who have been striving for their right to enter into a civil partnership as a heterosexual couple since October 2014.
15 May 2018
Surrogacy and Parental Orders for single parents - the ‘non-urgent’ road to change
Since May 2016, prospective single applicants for Parental Orders for surrogate children have waited with bated breath for the change in the law that permits them to make their applications, independent of their relationship status. At the end of last year, it was announced that a remedial order to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008 (HFEA) had been placed before Parliament. However, five months have now passed and the question remains whether we are any closer to change.
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