The LexisNexis Legal Awards 2025 are officially open for entries, offering a platform to celebrate the very best of the UK’s ...

Narcissism has increasingly been used as a term to describe anyone who demonstrates difficult or undesirable behaviour. In reality it is a very specific personality disorder which is capable of being ...

The Family Law Awards 2024 shortlist has been released, celebrating the exceptional talent and achievements within the family law community. This prestigious event will once again bring together the ...

Nearly 600 barristers, solicitors, judges, academics and other family law practitioners gathered in central London last night for the prestigious annual Family Law Awards. During the eighth edition of ...

Rebecca Probert, Senior Lecturer, University of Warwick. Many cohabitants mistakenly believe they have a 'common-law marriage' which affords them the same rights as married couples. This myth is given ...

Part IV of the Family Law Act 1996 (the 1996 Act) sets out the basic legislative framework for the protection of victims of Domestic Violence in England and Wales. With very limited exceptions all ...

Following Mrs Justice Black elevation to the Court of Appeal, Peter Jackson QC has been appointed as a High Court Judge with effect from 1 October 2010. Peter, 54, is a member of 4 Paper Buildings and ...

Richard Castle, barrister at 1 King’s Bench Walk Chambers, discusses the court’s approach when determining the division of assets between a husband and wife on the basis of the husband’s ...

Lecturer in Law, University of Buckingham: The mention of 'incest' leads to a sense of revulsion, regardless of whether the context is non- consensual, or true consensual incest between adults. The ...

You may be aware that the recent Court of Appeal case of Re W [2016] EWCA Civ 793 has been causing some head scratching among commentators. There is no doubt that this was a difficult case. The CoA ...

*but didn’t ask because… if you were that interested in Chancery work you wouldn’t have become a family lawyer 1. A classic trope of the horror movie is the unexpected return from the dead of ...