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• Family court judges given power to intervene in domestic abuse cases
  Pilot scheme, recommended by expert panel report, will aim to avoid re-traumatising victims and their childrenJudges will be empowered to intervene in cases of domestic abuse to prevent the complainant from being re-victimised by aggressive lines of questioning, as part of a new raft of legal changes announced today.Victims will also be provided with separate […]
• Glenn Brasse obituary
  Stoke Newington, north London, 1946: a secretive Austrian artist checks into a Jewish-owned lodging house. Suspicion mounts. A religious court is assembled to decide who he might be. Human foibles are gently exposed and all is resolved. Such was the wry and humane storytelling of my brother-in-law Glenn Brasse, for his son’s independent film Sanhedrin.Glenn, […]
• Parents fight in court over whether children should return to school in England
  Family lawyer says divorcing couples can disagree during coronavirus pandemic amid conflicting adviceCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageSeparating parents are fighting each other through the courts over whether their children should return to school as lockdown is eased, a leading family lawyer has revealed.The reopening of classrooms in England is developing into a […]