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We cover many areas of family law including private law children law and domestic abuse, family finance, public law care and adoption. Every family case is important; the decisions made by the court can affect the families involved for years if not generations. Most are also complex.
Gilmore and Glennon’s Hayes and Williams’ Family Law, now in its seventh edition, provides critical engagement with key areas of family law, with detailed, yet accessible, expositions of case law, key legislation, and debates affecting adults and children.
- Stephen Gilmore
- 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...
Dec 1, 2023 · A Q&A guide to family law in the UK (England and Wales). The Q&A gives a high-level overview of key issues including jurisdiction and conflict of law; pre- and post-nuptial agreements and matrimonial property regimes; divorce, nullity, and judicial separation; children; surrogacy and adoption; cohabitation; family dispute resolution; civil ...
The following discussion of key issues facing family law in England and Wales is organised around four of the themes identified by the editors of this volume: marriage, family finances, family violence and neglect, and autonomy and family law.
We are acutely aware of the human side of family law and explore all avenues, including mediation, to minimise the financial and emotional cost of disputes. We operate an out-of-hours helpline and our barristers will respond quickly to emergencies.
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