I'm sympathetic to the plight of Brian Myerson (to the extent that I'm capable of being sympathetic to an individual whose wealth was once so great). He and his soon to be ex-wife agreed that he would transfer to her by installments a sufficient amount of his property and the value of his shares that she would end up with 43% of their combined ( Read more... )

There has been an angry reaction to a government-backed report, which effectively concluded that family courts were not biased against non-resident parents (usually fathers) on the whole. There are indeed problems with drawing this conclusion from the fact that most NRPs are successful with their contact applications, and that only 10% of cases ( Read more... )

I find this both tragic and troubling.

Violence against children aged 0-10 more than doubled in 2007, according to a study based on data from A&E departments. Apparently it is unclear whether parents and carers are responsible for this increase, and there is a suggestion that violence between children is becoming more common. This could have implications for the question of ( Read more... )

The President of the Family Division has expressed concern that the number of applications for non-molestation orders has dropped by 25-30% since breaching such orders became a criminal offence last year. The implication is that people are reluctant to report domestic violence and take action on it if it means their partner is at risk of getting a ( Read more... )

So the controversy about the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill rages on, and the head of the Catholic Church in Scotland has launched a scathing attack on the idea of producing hybrid human/animal embryos ( Read more... )

The government have finally responded to the Law Commission's proposals for a redistributive scheme to deal with the property of cohabitants on relationship breakdown ( Read more... )

Rod Liddle provides an amusing lay perspective on what he calls "this divorce payout madness". I should emphasise that I mean "amusing" in the sense of laughing with him rather than at him ( Read more... )

I have been shocked at the backlash created by the Archbishop of Canterbury's remarks about inevitablity of the incorporation of Sharia law into British law, both from politicians and from the views of the Great British Public as expressed on the infamous BBC Have Your Say message boardI admit that as a concept, the idea of incorporation can seem ( Read more... )

A friend sent me an article detailing how Iranian trans people are allowed, and in fact encouraged by the government, to undergo gender reasssignment surgery. While homosexuality is considered a "moral deviation" punishable by death, transsexuals are said to be blameless individuals trapped in the body of the wrong gender. The government are ( Read more... )