October has certainly been conference month for Margaret Kelly. Here, she offers her reporting: Second Stop Nottingham England The annual dispute resolution conference took place on 11 and 12 October. As an enthusiastic proponent of non-court based resolution of issues following the break down of relationships wherever possible, I was proud to be a member […]
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Josiah-Lake Gardiner is an ‘innovative and exciting practice with a personal touch’ says The Legal 500 UK 2018
Josiah-Lake Gardiner are pleased to announce that the firm has once again been recommended in The Legal 500 UK. The Legal 500 UK independently surveys law firms across the UK and ranks them in accordance to practice area. The Legal 500 UK 2018 edition recommends Josiah-Lake Gardiner for services in relation to Family Law […]
Conference updates from Margaret Kelly – Consultant Solicitor (Part 1/2)
October has certainly been conference month for Margaret Kelly, Consultant Solicitor at Josiah-Lake Gardiner. Here, she offers her reporting: First Stop Brisbane Australia As a solicitor qualified in both the UK and Australia I belong to a group of dual qualified solicitors based in the UK and Australia called the Anglo Australian Family Law Association. […]
Book Review: Barlow’s Cohabitants and the Law, 4th edition by David Josiah-Lake
Josiah-Lake Gardiner are pleased to report that David Josiah-Lake’s latest book “Barlow’s Cohabitants and the Law, 4th edition” has received a fantastic review by Graeme Fraser in the New Law Journal (19 October 2018). The review notes that David’s book provides “a clear and easily accessible summary of rights and remedies for cohabitants living together and […]
Owens v Owens [2018]: Fault-based divorces to continue
Somewhat reluctantly the Supreme Court last week ruled in the case of Owens v Owens [2018] UKSC 41 to uphold the decision made by the judge at first instance which was endorsed by the Court of Appeal to dismiss the wife’s divorce petition alleging that her marriage had broken down irretrievably because her husband had behaved […]
Mills v Mills [2018]: No second bite of the cherry
The Supreme Court has this week delivered a unanimous judgment in the case of Mills v Mills [2018] UKSC 38 setting aside a 2017 Court of Appeal decision to increase a wife’s spousal maintenance to cover her rental payments, 16 years after a financial settlement was agreed in 2002. A timely reminder that despite the making […]
Heterosexual Couple Win Right To Civil Partnership
In what was an expected defeat for the government, the Supreme Court has ruled that Civil Partnerships (CPs) should be open to heterosexual couples. It was never clear to pretty much anyone why the government would, after introducing same sex marriage in 2014, choose to keep CPs in place. After all, CPs were introduced in […]
Barlow’s Cohabitants and the Law, 4th edition by David Josiah-Lake (3/6)
The word ‘cohabitation’ has come to denote the situation where two people live together as husband and wife or as civil partners in a family framework analogous to marriage or civil partnership, without actually having gone through a ceremony of marriage or entering into a civil partnership. There is no formal definition of ‘cohabitants’ but, […]
Barlow’s Cohabitants and the Law, 4th edition by David Josiah-Lake (2/6)
As David says in the introduction to the book, with Brexit sucking all the air out of the room (well, out of the legislative chamber in Parliament), it is unlikely that there will be any significant developments with regard to the law affecting cohabitants/unmarried families and no ‘divorce law equivalent’ affording rights to cohabitants for […]
Barlow’s Cohabitants and the Law, 4th edition by David Josiah-Lake (1/6)
As one would expect, there have been enormous (and hugely progressive) advances in the area of family law since the last edition of Barlow’s Cohabitants and the Law which was published in 2001. Ever growing acceptance of and legal recognition for same sex relationships has seen the passing of both the Civil Partnership Act 2004 […]