Jurisdiction
England; Wales
Enactment Citation
SI 2010/1817
Commencement date
19 July 2010; 1 September 2010; 1 April 2011
Enabling Power
Children, Schools and Families Act 2010, s 29(5)

Speechly Bircham Finance Update

The case of K v L considered the appropriate division of the marital assets in ancillary relief proceedings where virtually the entirety of those assets had been inherited by one of the parties prior to the marriage.

Lady Butler-Sloss, former president of the Family Division, has called on the government to safeguard access to justice in child welfare cases.

The Ministry of Justice has issued a consultation on whether to close 103 magistrates’ and 54 county courts that they state are “underused and inadequate” in England and Wales.