Family law
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Asylum seeker turned solicitor who only qualified in 2016 wins immigration lawyer of the year
Baroness Doreen Lawrence handed out gongs at yesterday’s legal aid awards
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Why has the Court of Appeal ruled a ‘very upset’ wife must stay married to a man she hasn’t lived with for two years and who allegedly behaved unreasonably towards her?
Philip Marshall QC, who represented her in the divorce battle, speaks to Legal Cheek
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Court of Appeal: Denying straight people civil partnerships is NOT unlawful
The boyfriend and girlfriend claimants think the law discriminates against them
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When lawyers divorce: Court of Appeal sides with Cambridge law lecturer over her City solicitor ex-husband
She earns £53,000, so should he still have to pay maintenance?
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Legal aid pay row: Doughty Street QC rounds on claims lawyers’ earnings have ‘rocketed’
Publicly funded barristers still broke, says publicly funded barrister
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A trainee’s revenge: Ex-private client solicitor slams the ‘Harrods wife’
But the ‘Tesco wife’ doesn’t come out much better
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Lord Sumption tells lawyers not to specialise too much, lawyers not happy about it
He’s even been accused of ‘sumptionsplaining’
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Interview: The Nottingham Uni law student with his own business helping litigants-in-person
And he’s only in his second year
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Family lawyers feel the strain as number of care cases skyrocket
More and more care applications are being made, meaning more and more work for family lawyers
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Regulation that plagued family lawyers declared ‘invalid’ by Court of Appeal
Chris Grayling’s changes to rules on domestic abuse sufferers getting legal aid don’t stand up to scrutiny
