Brexit raises many issues in almost every legal field and family law is certainly no exception. Alex Critchley is a Solicitor in the Family Law Team at Morton Fraser. He regularly advises on issues of international jurisdiction in family cases, and below discusses the potential prospects of family law post-Brexit. The term reciprocity will seem […]
Below Lawyer Monthly hears from Lorraine Heard, Legal Director at transatlantic law firm Womble Bond Dickinson, on the challenges faced by ONS when it comes to justifying the gender pay gap across the UK. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has adopted an experimental statistical analysis to gain an insight into the reasons for the […]
MPs recently insisted that ministers must learn more about how claimants invest their damages before they make changes to the discount rate. Below Sue Bowler, Partner at Coffin Mew, talks Lawyer Monthly through the ins and outs of this discussion. The discount rate governs how much annual loss in a personal injury or clinical negligence […]
Rajeev Shaunak, head of travel & tourism, MHA MacIntyre Hudson, comments below on the Brexit bottleneck delaying new travel regulation, and urgent action needed to address concerns on the future of air travel and holidays. Consultations for the new Package Travel Directive (PTD) started in Autumn last year but have been dogged by delays and […]
On the 8th international Day of the Endangered Lawyer (last week), the Bar Council and the Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales (BHRC) together with lawyers’ organisations in Europe and around the world, stand in solidarity with those lawyers in Egypt who face persecution in furtherance of the protection of the rule of […]
Ahead of the second reading of the European Union (Withdrawal) Bill in the Upper House, the House of Lords Constitution Committee is calling on the Government to amend the Bill. The Committee’s report, published last week, states that legislation is necessary to ensure legal continuity and certainty when the United Kingdom leaves the European Union. […]
A ground-breaking report recently released by the Fawcett Society concludes that the UK legal system is failing women and needs fundamental reform. The report, which is the conclusion of the Fawcett Society’s Sex Discrimination Law Review (SDLR) Panel, also found that violence against women and girls is ‘endemic’ in the UK. The SDLR Panel was […]
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