Family

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7 Nov 2011

Norgrove review could have gone further

The Norgrove review of family law has made some worthwhile recommendations but has missed an opportunity for a more radical overhaul, says Jon Armstrong

5 Nov 2011

Does England and Wales need a cohabitation law?

The modern reality of two people living together does not fit with the inflexible and outdated principles of the laws that govern it

5 Nov 2011

Does England and Wales need a new cohabitation law?

Resources would be better spent on publicising the tools available already ?to cohabiting couples

17 Oct 2011

Solicitors back Supreme Court's rejection of immigration rule

Age limit 'about immigration, not about forced marriages'

12 Oct 2011

Supreme Court overturns immigration age limit

The Supreme Court has this morning overturned an immigration rule banning the entry of foreign spouses from non-EU countries who are under the age of 21.

3 Oct 2011

In their pocket

The latest government attacks on personal injury claimants are based on a distorted view of the market, says David Ellis

29 Sept 2011

Judges to hear applications to withdraw life-sustaining treatment in public

Cases concerned with the withdrawing of life-sustaining treatment from patients in a minimally conscious or vegetative state should all be heard by the Court of Protection and should be heard in public, a senior judge ruled this morning as he refused an application by the family of a woman who has been in this condition since February 2003.

19 Sept 2011

Disappointment as government shelves cohabitation reform

No evidence that change is urgently needed, justice minister says