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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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Commercial service offering pensions annuity advice and quotes. The website explains about different types of annuities and publishes a performance comparison table.

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A good site to check out car prices, running costs, insurance policies and other general financial products offered by the AA

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Information provided by the Department for Work & Pensions about benefits.

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Capital Gains Tax indexation allowance tables.

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Information about the work of the CSA can be found here but not much help with calculations.

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This site allows access to some free information such as company number, filing history, registered office address, nature of business, previous names etc. Other information must be paid for the service is relatively inexpensive - latest company accounts for £4, for example. The service is available from 7 am to midnight, Monday to Saturday.

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Solicitor's site offering useful information about divorce & money, including post White developments.

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This Financial Services company based in London offers a lot of uesful information about financial products and how they work.

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Free currency converter and information about share prices and performance. Some parts of the site require subscription.

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Searchable site to investigate properties and prices including rental information.

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Amongst other things this site gives a table of the recommended minimum foster care allowances.

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UK site with information about property prices - you can look up a postcode and find the price of recently sold properties in the area.

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The Independent Case Examiner`s role is to investigate complaints of maladministration by the Child Support Agency.

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Life assurance and insurance quotes online.

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FSA website aimed at simplifying the world of money with all sorts of useful tools to help set budgets, review debts and understand investments and savings.

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Online RPI table going back to 1970.

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Site focussing on pension sharing after divorce and also giving general information about divorce.

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