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From garage to unicorn – Employment law lessons for scaling tech teams
Catherine Bourne
21 April 2015
Farming divorces – any closer to equality?
The way that family law approaches and determines financial claims upon divorce has undergone seismic changes over the last 15 years.. Prior to the House of Lords decision in White v White [2001] AC 596, the law applied a “reasonable needs and requirements” arguments in order to determine the competing financial claims of a husband and wife on divorce. It was in fact a farming case that brought about the change in favour of an equal division, when Mrs White took her financial claims all the way to the House of Lords.
17 April 2015
The Wright divorce - joint lives maintenance and the bikini test
The last 30 years has been marked by an extraordinary growth in awards made to wives on divorce. Retirement, as the recent case of Wright shows, is a time for change and review.
9 April 2015
Surrogacy – a welcome change as intended parents become entitled to adoption leave and pay
Parents using surrogates to help them have children have cause for celebration, as the law in relation to adoption leave and pay is updated to include some intended parents of surrogate children. The changes, which came into force on 5 April 2015, apply to children due on or after that date.
8 April 2015
Reflections on the Families Through Surrogacy conference in London 2015
I attended the Families Through Surrogacy conference in March and heard from a number of fantastic speakers about issues ranging from infertility to being a surrogate mother, having children through surrogacy, advising on surrogacy in England and abroad and obtaining a passport for your child.
19 March 2015
The further use of discretion in considering time limits for parental orders
The judgment in AB and CD and CT [2015] EWFC 12 (“AB and CD”) was given in February and provides a further of example of the court’s willingness to use its discretion to provide security for children born out of surrogacy arrangements.
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