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Family Law Week is the leading UK website dedicated to family law news & training. Thousands of users now take advantage of free access to the full text of key cases as they are published, articles from leading practitioners, latest news and legislation updates and our accredited, best value CPD. All this can be delivered to your desktop each week with our FREE email update.

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Cases - full text of key judgments published from January 2005 onwards
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latest news
	Judges should consider talking to children in "every case", says President (12/05/2008)
	Lord Justice Wall criticises Lib Dem MP over "abuse of position" (10/05/2008)
	Resolution claims family legal aid lawyers going the "way of the NHS dentist" (12/05/2008)
	Bar Standards Board appoints new Director (12/05/2008)
	SRA issues consultation on reform of higher rights of audience (12/05/2008)
	Consultation published on Children and Adoption 2006 rules (12/05/2008)
latest judgments
	C v C (CC & Ors Intervening) [2008] EWHC 517 (Fam) Application by children to be joined as parties in Hague Convention proceedings. Application allowed. (12/05/2008)
	P v Nottingham City Council & the Official Solicitor [2008] EWCA Civ 462 Appeal against care and placement orders on grounds that the appellant's human rights had been breached for not having had a fair trial and that the Official Solicitor should not have been instructed to act on her behalf. Appeal dismissed. (10/05/2008)
	H v H [2008] EWHC 935 (Fam) Judgment in ancillary relief proceedings involving valuation of a privately owned restaurant business and where both parties were seeking a clean break. The wife was awarded 67% of the "non-business wealth" plus periodical payments. (06/05/2008)
	Baker v Baker [2008] EWHC 977 (Ch) Application by widowed wife under the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975. The application succeeded. (06/05/2008)
	Re X (Children) [2008] EWHC 242 (Fam) Applications to disclose evidence given in family proceedings for the purposes of related criminal and CICA proceedings. Applications allowed. (05/05/2008)
	F (A Child) [2008] EWCA Civ 439 Appeal against decision that a local authority can place a child for adoption where the biological father was seeking leave to apply to revoke the placement order. Appeal dismissed by majority. (05/05/2008)
	Lancashire County Council v D & E [2008] EWHC 832 (Fam) Judgment in fact-finding hearing relating to possible non-accidental injuries. The judge found that the parents were not responsible for the injuries. (05/05/2008)
latest articles
	Cohabitation Reform: The Scottish Experience John Fotheringham, of Fyfe Ireland solicitors in Edinburgh, sets out the basics of the Scottish statutory scheme for cohabitation cases and highlights what English practitioners need to know. (06/05/2008)
	Are we guilty of "Trial by Expert"? John Fox, of Lamb Building, voices his view that social care experts, welfare officers and reporters are wielding too much influence in the family courts. (28/04/2008)
	Compensation Employed As The New Contribution Alexander Thorpe, of Queen Elizabeth Buildings, examines how the courts have handled the concept of compensation in recent ancillary relief cases. (07/04/2008)