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David Jockelson named Family Legal Aid Lawyer of the Year at the LALY Awards 2010
Lawyers from all over the country gathered at Shakespeare’s Globe on the South bank of the River Thames last Wednesday night to attend a presentation ceremony to celebrate the achievements of lawyers committed to Legal Aid Work. The event was ...
Read more01.06.2010
Appoint guardians earlier, please!
Solicitors at Miles & Partners acting in cases relating to children are asking judges to put pressure on CAFCASS to appoint Childrens Guardians earlier. The current shortage of Guardians in care cases is causing serious concern amongst lawyers who represent the children who are ...
Read more25.03.2010
Community Treatment Orders – for whose benefit?
The introduction of the Mental Health Act 2007 in November 2008, brought about significant changes to the Mental Health Act 1983. Of those changes, the key and arguably most significant change was to the provision of mental health treatment in ...
Read more26.10.2009
Amanda Dench recognised as a Resolution accredited specialist
Miles and Partners are developing considerable expertise in the area of international child abduction. In January this year Amanda Dench was recognised by the UK’s leading family law group – Resolution – as an accredited specialist in this area. The ...
Read more23.02.2009
Priority for homeless client
R(Alam) v Tower Hamlets LBC [2009] EWHC (Admin) 44 Lou Crisfield successfully supported her client Mr Alam when his local authority agreed that he was homeless but decided that he was not in priority need. The council placed his housing ...
Read more01.02.2009
Domestic violence – how to spot it
It is a common misconception that domestic violence is categorised by punching, kicking or using physical violence. In truth this is never the sole abuse that many victims suffer and only usually occurs later in an abusive relationship. There are ...
Read more18.12.2008
Transfer deadline expired
R (DB) v Nottingham Healthcare NHS Trust (2008) EWCA Civ 1354 Rachel Turner represented the claimant DB in a successful appeal concerning admission for treatment and compulsory detention under the Mental Health Act 1983. A hospital order, issued on 17 ...
Read more03.12.2008