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  • Give someone else a voice

    4 Brick Court's running team took part in the Great South Run (10 miles in Portsmouth on 26th October)on behalf of a favourite charity and your support would be greatly appreciated by the many children who have come to depend on VOICE.  VOICE is a charity entirely dedicated to giving support advice and assistance to the 60,000 children in care in the UK at any one time.

     

    The team from chambers included Jacqui Gilliatt, Louise MacLynn, Francis Cassidy, Lee Pearman and Paul Carver, joined by Jacqui's husband, John Sullivan, his friend David Parkinson and Jacqui's friends Carolyn & Tim Cobbold.

    You can log on to our Just Giving website and translate our pounding the pavements of Portsmouth in to pounds for this charity.

    Alternatively we will be happy to receive cheques made out to Voice at 4 Brick Court.

     

    Click to find out more about VOICE

  • New files on 4bc Website

    We have recently added to our website - the June 2008 updater - the Jargon Buster from A to Z (in  Family Law General) & the Family Law Bibliography (also in Family Law General).

  • Standard of Proof in Care Proceedings

    The House of Lords ruled on 11th June 2008 in an appeal in which three members of  4 Brick Court Chambers appeared before their Lordships on 19th and 20th May 2008. Marianna Hildyard QC and Isabelle Watson represented the Respondent father and Stuart Fuller (led by Stephen Cobb QC of 1 Garden Court Chambers) represented the Appellant children (through their Children’s Guardian). CAFCASS intervened.

  • Domestic Violence Practice Direction

    This Practice Direction came into force on 9.5.08.  See also the comments of Robert Stevens reported on the Family Law Week blog.

  • PLO Guidance for London

    Judge Altman, the Designated Judge for London, has issued an Initial Local Plan for London dated 10th April 2008in respect of the implementation of the Public Law Outline (which is already in force). It applies to the London Care Centre which means the PRFD & Barnet, Kingston & Croydon County Courts & is relevant also to cases transferred into those courts from the FPCs.

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Articles listing » Monthly Family Law Updaters » Family Law Updater June 2008




Public Law Cases
Re B (Children) [2008] UKHL 35
"My Lords, This case is about the meaning of the words "is likely to suffer significant harm". How is the court to be satisfied of such a likelihood? This is a prediction from existing facts, often from a multitude of such facts, about what has happened in the past...But do those facts have to be proved in the usual way, on the balance of probabilities? Or is it sufficient that there is a "real possibility" that they took place, even if the judge is unable to say that it is more likely than not that they did?" - BARONESS HALE OF RICHMOND
Birmingham City Council v M 2008 EWHC 1085 (Fam) - Secure Accommodation


Reports & Consultations
White Paper on Joint Birth Registration


Legislation
Child Maintenance Other Payments Act 2008


Ancillary Relief
Bradley v Bradley [2008] EWCA Civ 629


Private Law Cases
A-T (Children) [2008] EWCA Civ 652


Domestic Violence
Kerai v Patel [2008] EWCA Civ 600


Seminars, Lectures & Conferences
Association of Lawyers for Children Annual Hershman Levy Memorial Lecture Lord Justice Hughes lecture "Children Act 1989; a different sort of litigation ?"
Mr Justice Ryder's "cross roads" speech
The full text of Mr Justice Ryder's recently reported speech on the state of the family justice system has been published on the Judiciary website and is available to download.
Can Marriage be a Barder Event?
Alexander Chandler, of One Garden Court, considers the recent decision in Dixon v Marchant which considered whether remarriage can be a Barder type event.


Articles
Assessing Risk: A report on the Family Justice Council's Annual Seminar
Section 38(6) Assessments: The Rise and Fall - And Rise?