JUDGE. And boy, what a time of it in the legal press on THIS topic. What’s been going on? Well, there was a case reported on 16 October 2019 which was an appeal from the decision of a District Judge. The case was about care proceedings (where social services or Children’s Services are …
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Enforcement of a court order
Here’s the thing. Getting a court order for someone to pay you money – whether in divorce proceedings or otherwise- is sometimes only part of the story. If a person is bold enough not to obey a court order and doe not pay what they should, then they should, the order has to be enforced. How to …
Marriage or no marriage – that is the question
Apologies to all the Shakespeare fans for the butchering of that quote. It seemed to be appropriate for an interesting case I came across. So, a marriage is a marriage is a marriage, right? Wrong. For a marriage to be validly performed in this jurisdiction (and by that I mean England and Wales) it …