The Law Shop are holding a special event offering free advice and assistance on all areas of Family Law. The drop in clinic will be based at The Law Shop, 13-14 Market Street, Loughborough LE11 3EP and will run from 10 am until 4 pm. The Family Law team will be readily available to offer [...]
If you or a loved one loses mental capacity they will not be able to deal with finances or make important decisions on medical treatments or their ongoing care. It is often an extremely difficult time for friends and relatives to witness someone they care about lose the ability to make decisions and manage their [...]
After much debate in the press on the issue, the Queen’s Speech on 9 May 2012 was silent on the introduction of gay marriage. David Cameron previously pledged that his Government would introduce gay marriage and this was expected to be put forward in the next parliamentary session. However, the public consultation launched in March [...]
Joycelin Dawes of Quaker Social Action has used a Diamond Jubilee tribute event to express her view on gay marriage. She was one of 37 people invited to pay tribute to the Queen on Tuesday 27 March 2012, along with high profile guests such as Boris Johnson. Within her speech, Ms Dawes stated: “Our commitment [...]
Family Division President, Sir Nicholas Wall, has renewed calls for no fault divorce to be established in the UK. Sir Nicholas argues that divorce was once a judicial process, where parties had to prove grounds to a judge, and is now merely an administrative process. As such, it is not necessary for a party to [...]
Kate and Gerry McCann are among the signatories on a letter to Government regarding proposed changes to no-win no-fee arrangements. Currently, lawyers who take on cases on a no-win no-fee basis can add on a success fee to their basic fees to compensate for the risk involved in losing a case and not getting paid. [...]
The Child Support Agency has been ordered to pay the legal fees of a father wrongly pursued for £8,000. Henry Roy experienced an amicable break up with the mother of his two children. His ex-wife asked the CSA to assess child maintenance to formalise the agreement. Due to a long period of unemployment, the actual [...]
Former New Zealand cricket captain Chris Cairns has won England’s first ever libel case involving a Tweet. The ex-chairman of the Premier League, Lalit Modi, tweeted that Mr Cairns was involved in match-fixing. Mr Cairns stated despite only a small number of people having sight of the original tweet, the nature of the social networking [...]
A man who reported images of child abuse to police after discovering they had been automatically downloaded onto his computer has been banned from any unsupervised contact with his daughter. Nigel Robinson said he discovered the images had appeared on his laptop after attempting to download some music files last November. He reported the images [...]
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The Financial Service Authority (“FSA”) has ordered the banks to write to millions of customers explaining that they may have been mis-sold Payment Protection Insurance (“PPI”). The FSA has ordered that these letters are to be written in plain English stating the customer may have been mis-sold PPI, it must state the reason why they [...]
