The role of judges is changing as ever-greater numbers of people appear in court without a lawyer, a senior district judge has warned.
Harold Godwin is the recently appointed President of the Association of Her Majesty’s District Judges
No legal system can be truly just without the respect of the society in which it operates. The victims of a criminal being led away to begin their sentence can only feel that justice has been done if they respect the system which has enacted the punishment.
This week the Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission (CMEC) published its annual report and accounts for 2010/11. Earlier this month the Work and Pensions Select Committee published its proposed child maintenance reforms.
The Times reports that radical reform of the selection of judges is needed to break the stranglehold of white Oxbridge males at the top of the judiciary. The report notes that in the past ten years, not a single solicitor has been appointed directly to the High Court.
It was with some personal discomfort that I read the quotation from a recent article of mine in Family Law, as cited by Lord Justice Wilson in the appeal before the Court of Appeal of Jones v Jones.
When I read the Imerman judgement, there is one passage that jumps off the page and startles me. It is this reference to a marital lifestyle: “If a husband leaves his bank statement lying around open in the matrimonial home, in the kitchen, …
How healthy is divorce litigation for everyone involved: clients, their families, the lawyers and others? How healthy is it for anyone involved in these cases? Paranoia is a profound distrust or suspicion of others, which goes hand-in-hand with the …
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