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Highlighting Children’s Rights
This week we wanted to shine a spotlight on a charity that does valuable work to give the most vulnerable children in society a voice, and which has this week announced two new initiatives that further its mission. That charity is Coram, which started as a foundling hospital established in London by Captain Thomas Coram in 1739. Its focus is... more >
Footballers’ Wives (briefly)
Christmas is over, it’s January, and it’s grey and cold out there. So you can imagine that when a case came through this week that gives us a bit of a glimpse into the glamorous world of the Premier League footballer, we thought you might like to hear about it. In social terms, it’s a story of boy-meets-girl, a whirlwind... more >
Enforcing financial orders
In our work as family lawyers, we are generally focused on getting our client the outcome they want, or as close to it as is reasonably possible. We do this by whatever means are most appropriate in the circumstances of our client’s individual case: we commence the collaborative process, we negotiate for them, we support them through mediation, we arrange... more >
Review of the Year
It is CFLP tradition at this time to do a little review of the year, recapping some of the subjects we’ve looked at in the last 12 months. As we come to the end of 2016, a year of shocks and surprises if ever there was one, we can look back at a relatively quiet year in family law. January... more >
New understandings
This week, the high court denied a husband the opportunity to appeal occupation and non-molestation orders made against him, and in favour of his wife. The case is an interesting one for many reasons, not least because we rarely get to hear about court proceedings arising from allegations of domestic abuse: few of them reach appeal stage, and – in... more >
Children’s time with both parents
It seems that more parents are going to court with disputes over the care of their children after relationship breakdown. The most recent statistics show that in October 2016 Cafcass received referrals in a total of 3,505 new private law cases about children – that is, those where the local authority had not initiated proceedings. This figure represents a 9% increase on... more >