New Year’s Eve and another year, indeed a decade, is almost over. How has this year been for you? If it has been anything like mine, it has been a rollercoaster. It has passed by very quickly and, looking back, there have been some real highs. …
As we bid farewell to the Noughties, I pose the question: which case of the past decade has had the greatest implications for family law and its practitioners? For me it is White v White: the decision of the House of Lords, delivered in 2000. This …
In my last post, Christmas and the divorced man, I wrote about a male client of mine: “My client intends to ignore Christmas this year. He is convinced that if men had their way, it wouldn’t exist at all. He asks, “Why do we have Father …
Yesterday morning my husband was reading the papers over a breakfast cup of coffee. He looked out into the garden. Our two giant Briard dogs were frolicking together, getting completely covered in snow. A little red robin was hopping about on the …
How many of us take our loved ones for granted? It is easy to forget that in a split second, lives can be transformed forever. Last week I had finished writing my post about John Ruskin, had exercised flat out on my Wattbike and was looking forward …
This is the view of the River Lune from the cemetery in Kirby Lonsdale, Cumbria, North West England. The great art critic and social thinker John Ruskin described the scene as “one of the finest views in England, therefore the world”, when …
There can be little doubt that Blanche Hunt, played by actress Maggie Jones who sadly died yesterday aged 75, was one of the most entertaining characters on British TV. Who was she? Fans of ITV’s Coronation Street knew her as the acerbic, …
“Our society in England and Wales now urgently demands a second attempt by Parliament, better than in the ill-fated Part II of the Act of 1996, to reform the five ancient bases of divorce; meanwhile, in default, the courts have set the …
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