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From garage to unicorn – Employment law lessons for scaling tech teams
Catherine Bourne
21 October 2015
Everyone should be free to choose between marriage or civil partnership
Today a bill was presented to Parliament calling for civil partnerships to be extended to heterosexual couples. At the moment, straight couples can only marry and are banned from entering into civil partnerships, whereas same sex couples can choose either option.
14 October 2015
No fault divorce – let’s take the blame out of it
Research released earlier this week shows that over half of divorce petitions lodged in England and Wales each year are based on behaviour. In our experience, the examples of behaviour used are wide ranging but, as the research has found, not necessarily accurate or a true reflection of the circumstances. We are told that almost a third of those filing for divorce have admitted that the examples given were fabricated in order to proceed with their divorce as soon as possible.
25 August 2015
Adultery and divorce – they think it’s all over….but it ain’t necessarily so
Divorce lawyers and the media across the world were woken from their sun loungers for one of those ‘irresistible’ PR moments last week as news broke of the data hack of subscribers to Ashley Madison, the dating website encouraging extramarital affairs. When Steve Mindel in Los Angeles plumbed the depths with “It’s going to be Christmas in September”, predicting a rush of unseasonal new enquiries, he might as well have been quoting the Sex Pistols “A cheap holiday in other people’s misery”.
24 July 2015
Pre-nups and divorce - disclosing too much or too little?
As family solicitors, we invest time in carefully explaining to our clients the importance of clear, full and frank disclosure. But what we typically have in mind are those people who think they can hide from the Court’s (or, more precisely, their spouse’s) prying eyes in divorce proceedings that secret bank balance saved for a rainy day, an offshore fund they think will be impossible to track, or the beneficial ownership of a company hidden behind a corporate structure.
1 June 2015
Children and mediation – The MoJ responds to Dispute Resolution Advisory Group’s final “Voice of The Child” report
Guest author Harry Nosworthy, Barrister at 4 Paper Buildings, looks at the MOJ's response to the Dispute Resolution Advisory Group’s final “Voice of The Child” report and evaluates the questions yet to be addressed.
- Children
- Civil Partnerships & Co-habitation
- Divorce & Separation
- Financial Settlements
- International Adoption & Surrogacy
- International Family Law
- Mediation & Alternatives to Litigation
- Pre-nuptial & Post-nuptial Agreements
- Anglo French Family Law
- Legal Updates
- Reflections on The Split
- Child Relocation after Divorce or Separation