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A list of the child safeguarding practice reviews, serious case reviews, significant case reviews and child practice reviews added to the national case review repository from the last five years.
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- Sharing and Fairness: White V White [2000] Ukhl54
- Non-Disclosure: Sharland Andgohil [2015] UKSC 60
- Divorce Law Reform: Owens V Owens [2018] UKSC 41
20 years ago, the then House of Lords dealt with a farming case following a 30-year marriage, and introduced some fundamental changes to the way family lawyersapproach cases. It is somewhat chastening, looking back, to realise that it took until the year 2000 for the court to introduce a starting point of ‘sharing’ in financial cases arising on div...
It has been five years since the Supreme Court judgments in Sharland andGohil. Before Sharland, in matrimonial cases the Court of Appeal had made it clear that even potentially fraudulent non-disclosure would not necessarily affect a settlement if it could be said that the Court’s knowledge of the true position would not have resulted in a substant...
Finally, some fundamental and positive law reform anticipated to benefit thousands of divorcing families, following the Supreme Court decision of Owenstwo years ago. For over 20 years family lawyers had been calling for ‘no fault divorce’. 2018 saw a contested divorce case (Owens), in itself a rarity, arrive before the Supreme Court. It hit the hea...
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Jul 8, 2020 · After decades of campaigning, predominantly by family law practitioners, The Divorce, Dissolution and Separation Bill finally received Royal assent and became an Act of Parliament on 25 June 2020. In the biggest shake-up of divorce laws for 50 years, the move towards “no fault divorce” is long overdue, and a welcome change which is aimed at ...
Family Court Review is an international, interdisciplinary family law journal — a forum for the exchange of ideas, programs, research, legislation, case law and reforms. The journal’s editorial staff, under the direction of Faculty Administrative Editor Matthew Kiernan, is based at the Law School.
Following many years of work by the Family Law Committee (“FLC”) of the Scottish Civil Justice Council (“SCJC”), the heavily criticised child court intimation form (F9) will finally be replaced on 24 June 2019.
Jan 15, 2021 · Best practice guidance for school complaints procedures 2020. Updated 15 January 2021. Applies to England. There’s separate guidance on setting up a complaints procedure for academies and...
- In accordance with Section 29(1) of the Education Act 2002, all maintained schools and maintained nursery schools must have and publish procedures...
- A ‘concern’ may be treated as ‘an expression of worry or doubt over an issue considered to be important for which reassurances are sought’.A compla...
- You must not limit complaints to parents or carers of children that are registered at the school. Anyone can make a complaint about any provision o...
- You must have your own distinct complaints procedures in place. A guidance document for parents on making complaints does not satisfy the legal req...
- Complaints need to be considered and resolved as quickly, and efficiently as possible.When reviewing schools’ complaints procedures or the handling...
- You’re free to choose how many stages your procedure will include. However, we recommend 2 stages, where the second, an appeal stage, is heard by m...
- The process of listening to and resolving complaints can contribute to school improvement. Governing bodies can use learning identified from across...
- We’re confident that governing bodies will deal with complaints impartially. However, details of complaints should not be shared with the whole gov...
- Complainants are entitled to a fair meeting or review. Persons who have a conflict of interest should not take part in the complaints process, incl...
- A complaints procedure should cover all complaints about any provision of community facilities or services that a school provides other than compla...
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In 2011, the then Government’s Family Justice Review, chaired by Sir David Norgrove, had argued: “The law cannot state a presumption of any kind without incurring unacceptable risk of damage to children.” 191 The Ministry of Justice’s expert panel report on the presumption in June 2020 suggested that this concern had become a reality ...
