The more than slight irritation & professional outrage you feel when the tribunal you are in front of makes a decision which is probably the right decision but makes it for all the wrong reasons and in doing so makes no reference to your skilful submissions which you spent several hours preparing and clearly might…
That moment of panic when you realise you have left your mobile phone at home but if you turn back to fetch it you will miss your train and arrive late for an important appointment so you can’t really do that and then you start running through whether you might be able to come back…
That slight embarassment when someone tells you something secret / confidential assuming you are in the know (eg impending judicial appointment) and you have to bluff that you knew all about it and have done for ages because you should have done – after all s/he is your closest friend even though you have not…
The real point to consider is – will it really make a difference on a day-to-day basis? Will it cause difficulties that you either have to put up with anyway or ought to? Non-resident parents have a lot of separate rights, for example, under the Human Rights Act, by their ability to make an application…
Mothers are often very anxious about what it means for a father to have parental responsibility. Just to give a few examples: • Will the father interfere with her day-to-day life looking after the child by stopping me from dressing the child the way I want or feeding the child in a particular way?• Will…
I am reeling with shock at the conduct of Bruce Hyman who has been sent to prison for twelve months for planting a fake judgment on his opponent father in a contact case. A vox pop of my colleagues suggests that he got off quite likely as most of us would have given him two…
Denny Crane’s handsome sidekick Alan Shore, played by James Spader. “Let me tell me two things about myself. I too am a lawyer, I can be painfully vindictive, and I do not play fair”. My role model.
I have been reading with growing alarm about the case of Fran Lyons and in the press (see this Daily Mail article . I have to say I rarely like to get drawn into this sort of debate as usually you can only hear one half of the story. But the half that I have heard…
This question is best answered by giving a few example of situations in which parents trying to share parental responsibility do not agree about the way a child should be brought up.In most cases, the court can be asked to make a decision when parents cannot agree. In most cases, the court will give very…
Never turn up at the arranged time for contact Never bring your child back on time from contact Refuse to agree a regular contact regime because you just want contact whenever you want contact Give your child a drastic haircut or dye the child’s hair a funny colour without telling them Get the child’s ears…
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