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Partner profile: Jeremy Ford
How would you describe your role at Cambridge Family Law Practice? I'm a partner at the firm and a solicitor advocate, that means I've completed the necessary training to appear in the higher courts, such as the Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court. I'm also a children's arbitrator. I sit as a private judge when people want to have... more >
Costs order in long-running child maintenance dispute
A woman who has engaged in serial litigation with her former husband for years has been ordered to pay his legal costs after refusing to negotiate with him during the latest proceedings. The disputes all stemmed from a short-lived marriage between an English father and Australian mother. After originally meeting in Australia in 2004, they married in 2006, before relocating... more >
Costs awarded to father of two children after failed appeal by mother
The Family Division of the High Court has awarded costs to the father of two children after their mother’s appeal against a finding of her parental alienation failed. In Mother v Father (2023), a fact-finding hearing in a family court 2021 found that, on the balance of probabilities, the mother had alienated the couple’s two children against the father. She... more >
Family court judge critical of “irresponsible” mother after she published allegations about the father of her children
A family court judge has denied a mother permission to travel to Asia with her children for 12 months, after she published allegations about the father. He was from South Africa while the mother held both British and Hong Kong citizenship. She was 15 years his junior. The parents originally met in 2010. They never married but the father did... more >
Litigant receives prison sentence for recording court proceedings
A man involved in an adoption case was sent to prison for four months for contempt of court after covertly recording court proceedings. The Honourable Mr Justice Cobb noted that the man’s recording, made in 2022, had been handed to a third party and then published on YouTube. Related documents were also given to the third party, and the resulting... more >
Divorce rate at its lowest since the 1970s, claims report
Divorce rates have fallen to their lowest level since the 1970s, a report has claimed. The Marriage Foundation analysed marriage data from the Office for National Statistics, as well as other sources, correlating marriages in each year from 1963 onwards with whether or not the couple had subsequently divorced. According to their findings, the average rate of divorce is... more >