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The most recent evidence heard by the Grenfell Tower Inquiry has been from testing and certification bodies. Testing bodies assess products in line with the standards of statutory regulations and cert...

How does the Court of Protection balance safety against autonomy when protecting vulnerable adults from dangerous behaviour and harmful influences? This issue arose in the recent case of MN v A City...

Family practice is changing now more rapidly than it ever has done before. Just imagine before March 2020, when the vast majority of court hearings were face-to-face, where online mediation and collab...

Proprietary estoppel provides a cause of action in equity which could prevent a person who gave a promise in relation to land from backtracking from the promise. The Court in such cases has broad disc...

We need to change the culture that gives the impression that when parents separate, their difficulties and relationships are legal or formal. The system needs to always emphasise that parents should n...

Hugh Mercer QC sitting as a Deputy Judge in the Queen’s Bench Division of the High Court handed down his judgment in the case of Arthur Deller (a child) v Ms Deborah King and Mr Guy McGarvey on 17 D...

Legal Aid, once a panacea and then squeezed to within an inch of its life, has recently opened its doors a little wider for bereaved families. The recent changes If a loved one dies whilst unde...

One of the criticisms that have historically been levelled at mediation is that it does not provide finality for family finances. That is not true or fair at this point, as mediators can set out a ful...