If you want to legally divorce your spouse in England and Wales, you have to rely on one of the 5 ‘Facts’ for divorce. If matters are so pressing that you do not want to wait for 5 years of separation, or even for a ‘2 year separation with consent’ divorce, it will be necessary […]
Perhaps understandably, there is a massive focus on children’s rights in criminal trials. They are entitled to ‘special measures’, ‘advocates’, ‘intermediaries’ and more relaxed court procedures; for example lawyers and judges may be permitted to not wear wigs. It is important that proper steps are taken to enable children to give the ‘best evidence’, so […]
Last week a racist MP (notice that I have not put the adjective in speech marks) was suspended for using a racist expression (again, deliberately no speech marks). Almost every single racist expression, in common (if not public!) parlance, which relates to black people, comes from the slave-trade era. This fact encapsulates a fascinating, if somewhat […]
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