Results tagged “Morecrofts” from LDP - The Legal Week

WINNERS of Liverpool Law Society's inaugural Legal Awards have encouraged the city's solicitors and barristers to put themselves forward for awards this year.

They say its crucial for the city's legal fraternity to celebrate the city's excellence in law.

And they have described their pride at receiving an award after being voted for by their peers.

A MERSEYSIDE solicitor is behind a bill aiming to change the law to give unmarried couples more rights if they split up.

The Cohabitation Bill had its first reading in Parliament on Thursday.

Sponsored by Lord Lester of Herne Hill, it is borne out of a campaign run by family law group Resolution, which is chaired by Morecrofts partner Godfrey Freeman.

Helen Broughton on the issue of opening family courts to public scrutiny.

FAMILY courts are to be open up to the media in response to controversy over their decisions and the way they operate.

Jack Straw, the Justice Secretary, plans to announce changes next month to create more transparency in the system.

Newspapers, Families Needs Fathers and other partisan groups are very keen on this. They see it as protecting families from unfair and unjustified state intervention or, in private law to the unfairness of alleged prejudicial judges in denying one party their due rights.

Godfrey Freeman on his first three months as chair of family law group Resolution.

THE first three months as chair of Resolution have, to say the least, been very busy.

After giving the opening address of the conference after my election, I was followed by Mr Justice Coleridge's keynote speech criticising the way the family justice system in England and Wales had been neglected.

The Daily Mail made it front-page news and brought about a media frenzy.