'Family Law Arbitration Group Scotland' Launch
The launch of the Family Law Arbitration Group Scotland (FLAGS) took place at the Faculty of Advocates Mackenzie Building on Wednesday 29th February.
b+m Annual Family Law Conference 2012
The programme for this year's Family Law Conference has now been finalised and will be taking place on Monday 19th March 2012 at Perth Race Course for the second consecutive year.
Why the focus should be more on parenting and less on who has contact and residence of children
By Shona Smith,
"I read on Monday that a Ministerial Working Group is to be set up in England and Wales to decide how the Children’s Act 1989 needs to be amended to rewrite the law in an attempt to ensure that fathers get “improved access” to their children after a marriage breaks down. The article indicated that currently Family Courts decide to leave children with their mothers in the vast majority of divorce cases.
The Role of Social Networking in Divorce
Social networking is a phenomenon which, like it or not, has become a part of modern life. The statistics alone make this a difficult concept to side-step. Facebook has over 800 million active users across the globe with over 50% of those active users logging on to Facebook in any given day. Last year, Twitter celebrated 100 million global active users and announced that the service was averaging 230 million tweets per day.
Gordon Murdoch v Lynn McCarroll or Murdoch – [2011] CSIH 002 Appeal to the Inner House
This is an Appeal to the Inner House in which Balfour and Manson represented the pursuer / respondent.
Sheriff finds in favour of Edinburgh mother who had been refused school placing request
This case involved an appeal against the refusal of a primary one placing request for the appellant's youngest son.
AB v BB [2011] CSOH 127 – Court of Session action dealing mainly with defender mother’s contact with child
The parties in this case were husband and wife and the principal issue related to the defender mother's contact with the parties' daughter.
Petition for child’s return to Latvia refused
ERG, a Latvian resident, raised a Petition, under the Child Abduction and Custody Act 1985, for return of his 3 year old daughter to Latvia in March 2011.
