Even if they’re not exactly to our personal taste, it’s impossible to deny the success of romantic novels. Over more than a century, for instance, the various titles published by the best known British imprint, Mills and Boon, have racked up many hundreds of millions of sales. The plots have been derided as formulaic and […]
Read moreAs several of my colleagues have written on this ‘blog, surrogacy has in recent years become a more familiar method relied on by heterosexual and same-sex couples to start a family. Melanie Kalina has, for instance, noted how the number of court orders transferring parental rights from surrogates to intended parents has increased considerably (https://hallbrown.co.uk/courts-baby-cotton-and-the-normalising-of-surrogacy/). […]
Read moreNo matter how much couples might not want to consider the prospect when they exchange vows, divorce is, sadly, a reality for many spouses. According to figures published the Office for National Statistics (ONS), 42 per cent of marriages end that way (https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/divorce/bulletins/divorcesinenglandandwales/2020). However, arguably one of the most positive developments in family law over […]
Read moreThose involved in Family Court cases involving children are under no illusion from the very start as to what their sole focus should be. After all, the opening lines of the legislation which governs such proceedings – the Children Act 1989 – states that: “the child’s welfare shall be the court’s paramount consideration” (https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1989/41/section/1). That […]
Read moreIt is hard to deny that the nature of family life in the UK has undergone tremendous change in recent decades. It is also a fact which is regularly borne out by data issued by the Office for National Statistics (ONS). As my colleague Ellen Fell wrote a fortnight ago, the latest ONS figures have […]
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