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Tower Hamlets LALY hat trick
Three local Tower Hamlets lawyers made history when they won three out of ten awards in the prestigious nationwide search for the Legal Aid Lawyer of the Year. Kathy Meade from Tower Hamlets Law Centre won the title for Social ...
Read more02.06.2010
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
Marital agreement reform in Radmacher v Granatino [2009]
The appeal of Radmacher v Granatino dramatically reduced the husband’s award to place him in circumstances more in line with the pre-nup that he signed. It is certainly worth noting the judicial perspective of the parties as ‘autonomous adults’ who ...
Read more01.10.2009
Confiscation orders after T v B Revenue & Customs Prosecutions Office [2008]
What are the considerations if the Revenue and Customs has an interest in the assets in your case? Let us look at two recent cases where a distribution or award of the assets was not possible due to confiscation and ...
Read more27.07.2009
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
Pre-nuptial agreements after NG v KR [2008] – are they worth it?
We consider the recent case of NG v KR (Pre-nuptial contract) [2008] Practitioners are more frequently being approached to prepare pre-nuptial contracts. While our first statement to our client is ‘they are not legally binding in this jurisdiction’, this statement ...
Read more18.02.2009
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