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Family Law is the leading practitioner journal, ensuring all family law professionals keep up with the latest developments and their impact on practice. Each issue contains the latest news of legislative change, authoritative case reports, invaluable articles and news items written and compiled by experts for the practising family law professional.

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February [2012]

Comment

Newsline

Case Reports

Articles

• Changing the culture: the role of the Bar and Bench in the
  management of cases involving children Sir Nicholas Wall
• Just following instructions? The ways and means of representing
  parents in care proceedings Judith Masson
• ‘The law is now reasonably clear’: the courts’ approach to
  non-matrimonial assets Alexander Chandler
• Why did the courts not protect this child? Re SB and Re F
  Mary Hayes
• Orders for sale: the creditor and the family home: Part 2
  Mark Pawlowski and James Brown
• The sharing of pre-matrimonial property on divorce: K v L
  MaryWelstead
• Scuppering Schofield? The impact of the EU Maintenance
  Regulation on claims for pension sharing Anna Heena

In Practice

• Experts in the family courts: are they worth it? Penny Cooper
• International surrogacy law conference in Las Vegas, October
  2011 Natalie Gamble
• Working Party of the Family Justice Council Guidance
  December 2011
• ADR Professional: The spirit of family mediation: future,
  immediate past, and present: Part 1 – 2020 vision Neil Robinson

Resolution News

FLBA News

Law Society News

Newsline Extra

journal CPD

Letter

Reviews

Diary

Family Law Brief

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Materials from August journalCPD

DIVORCE AND FINANCE

• The Legal Services Commission v F, A and V [2011] EWHC 899 (QB) 796
• K v L (Non-Matrimonial Property: Special Contribution) [2011] EWCA Civ 550 799
• Mekarska v Ruiz and Boyden (Trustee in Bankruptcy) [2011] EWHC 913 (Fam) 802
• Inherited Assets and Pre-Acquired Wealth: Two Recent Cases 863
• Challenges for Family Mediation 874
   

CHILDREN - PRIVATE LAW

• Re C (A Child) (Suspension of Contact) [2011] EWCA Civ 521 791
• Re H (Contact:Adverse Findings of Fact) [2011] EWCA Civ 585 792
• R v F (Child Maintenance: Costs of Contact Proceedings) 806
• Children Giving Evidence: The Practical Implications of Re W 817
• The Best Interests Principle Breaks Out 851
   

CHILDREN – PUBLIC LAW

• A Local Authority v K and N [2011] EWHC 1156 (Fam) 788
• Re LA (Medical Treatment) [2010] EWHC Fam 1744 789
• ‘God Never Gave Her a Chance: Won’t an Independent Social Worker?’ Applications for Assessments 835
• A Child: The Trump Card in Immigration Cases? 846
• Independent Visitors: Visiting, Befriending and Advising Children in Care 868