In October 2000, one of the country’s most senior lawyers highlighted to his fellow peers what he described as a permanent problem whenever marriages ended in divorce. The issue identified by Lord Nicholls of Birkenhead was “how the property of the husband and wife should be divided and whether one of them should continue to […]
Read moreProponents of the restrictions imposed by governments around the world over the last year maintain that they have been necessary part of efforts to control the spread of coronavirus. Regardless of their effectiveness, there is now little doubt that prolonged controls on businesses and households has taken its toll both on the economy and on […]
Read moreThanks to the referendum vote in June 2016 in favour of ‘Brexit’, Britain now stands apart from the rest of Europe. However, it’s not only in political terms that the country has adopted a different approach to its counterparts overseas. For the best part of two decades, London has earned the reputation as the ‘divorce […]
Read moreEven though some people might bristle at the thought, there can be little denying the impact of celebrity culture on society. Nevertheless, despite the fact that it seems to account for an increasing amount of space in both print and broadcast media, the lives of the rich and famous appear very different and distant to […]
Read moreThe British household has undergone tremendous change in recent decades. Since the introduction of current divorce law in the early 1970s, we’ve seen a dramatic increase (and, then, over the last 25 years, an equally considerable decline) in the number of marriages coming to a legal conclusion. We’ve seen civil partnerships for same-sex couples precede […]
Read moreAlthough Britons have drunk wine for centuries, it’s arguably only in the last few decades that its consumption has become truly popular across different age and demographic groups. Buoyed by the kind of range in supermarkets which would once only have been the preserve of specialist shops in years gone by, sales continue to climb. […]
Read moreBritons’ more refined drinking habits are being blamed for an increase in couples rowing about how to divide up their wine collections when they divorce. One of the country’s leading family law firms has reported that three per cent of divorces which it handles involve arguments about wine. Andrew Newbury, a partner with Hall Brown […]
Read moreThe vast majority of divorces with which I’ve been involved over the course of my 27-year career as a family lawyer are resolved in relatively amicable fashion. Although many marriages end in disagreement of some sort, the main point of contention is often the issue of providing ongoing financial support to a former spouse. The […]
Read moreThe end of a marriage can be an emotional experience, much as you’d expect. Even so, the process by which it is achieved is generally fairly straightforward and administrative. It will come as something of a shock, therefore, to read new guidance issued by the President of the Family Court, Sir James Munby about the […]
Read moreIn the course of the last four decades, households around the world have benefited from significant and very rapid developments in technology. Not too long ago, the kind of audio and video facilities now provided by affordable, pocket-sized instruments came courtesy of items which were often the size of a suitcase and sometimes prohibitively expensive. […]
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