Thursday, 6 August 2015

Payne v Payne - The Long Goodbye Continues

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As someone whose life is unduly preoccupied with thinking about relocation law, I find it fascinating that the English courts cannot bring t...
Thursday, 9 October 2014

Prorogue No More?

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Prorogation of jurisdiction might not sound like a terribly sexy topic for a blog post, but the decision of the Court of Justice of the Eu...
Sunday, 27 July 2014

The Strange Case of Surrogacy Law

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A surrogacy arrangement arises when one woman carries a child with the intention that she will not be the child's mother. Agreements to ...
Saturday, 12 July 2014

“A Narrow Textual Analysis”: Re P (Relocation) [2014] EWCA Civ 842

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Last month, the Court of Appeal allowed an appeal against a trial judge’s decision to refuse to allow a mother to relocate permanently wi...
Thursday, 8 May 2014

Listing Relocation Cases

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For some time, colleagues at the Bar and I have been sharing concerns that under the draft guidelines for case allocation in the new Family ...
Friday, 7 February 2014

Ryder LJ and the Meaning of Non-Accidental Injury

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A couple of weeks ago, the Court of Appeal (Tomlinson, Ryder and Christopher Clarke LJJ) gave judgment in Re S (A Child) [2014] EWCA Civ 25 ...
Saturday, 30 November 2013

Relocation Disputes: Approaches in England and New Zealand

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It's just a couple of weeks now until the publication of Relocation Disputes: Law and Practice in England and New Zealand  (Hart Publi...