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Georgina Rayment

Re H-N and Others (Children) (domestic abuse: finding of fact hearings) [2021] EWCA Civ 448

Georgina Rayment | 31st March 2021
Family practitioners, particularly those working in cases concerning children and domestic abuse, have awaited with interest the outcome of four conjoined appeals before the Supreme Court. Broadly, the four appeals (albeit one was later dismissed)…
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Ian Waine

Lockdown – Reflections at the end of week 53

Ian Waine | 26th March 2021
Before this week, few of us would ever have heard of the Ever Given. My grandfather, who was born in 1890, left home for the life of a merchant seaman when he was 14 and sailed around Cape Horn on a commercial sailing ship. He would barely recognize…
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Ian Waine

Lockdown - Reflections at the end of week 52

Ian Waine | 19th March 2021
Next Tuesday, 23rd March 2021, is the first anniversary of the day on which Covid restrictions first came into force in the United Kingdom. It has been designated as a day of reflection, primarily to commemorate the loss of lives and to stand…
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Graham Mead

Can a Parent Company be liable for a Subsidiary’s operations?

Graham Mead | 18th March 2021
The recent Supreme Court decision in Okpabi v Royal Dutch Shell Plc [2021] UKSC3, completed a triumvirate of cases in which the Court has been asked to rule on whether a parent company can be liable for a subsidiary’s operations.  
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