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  (Multiple) Affairs of the Heart  

It is often said that technology is a great facilitator and it is true that the advances of the last three decades have – literally – put rich potential in the palms of our hands. However, while shopping, working and keeping in touch with friends and family might not necessarily leave those hands idle, some […]

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  Taped: Parental Disputes and Covert Recordings  

Social media is generally thought to be a boon. It has enabled friends, family and colleagues living great distances apart to keep in touch and, in fact, helped put individuals who’d lost contact back together. There are critics, however, who argue that one of the consequences of the volume and type of material shared via […]

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  Wealth, Divorce and Delays  

In 1964, the then Leader of the Opposition, Harold Wilson (later, of course, to serve two terms as British Prime Minister), is said to have coined a very famous phrase about a week being “a long time in politics”. The point that he was trying to make, as his party’s – and, indeed, his own – […]

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  Making a Mark  

When Hall Brown Family Law was first established, we intended to provide clients with the very best service possible, no matter what specific situation they might require our help with. Over the course of the intervening 18 months, we have assembled an extremely experienced and capable team of lawyers to enable us to live up […]

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  Legal Aid and Abandonment: Grounds for Divorce  

You might be forgiven for thinking that because every single divorce in England and Wales over the last four decades has been governed by the same piece of legislation that the process is rather prescriptive. In reality, it is anything but. Apart from the fact that each divorce must abide by two central principles – […]

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  Watching The Detectives…Going Out Of Fashion  

It is a plot familiar to many movies and novels: a spouse determined to prove their partner’s infidelity hires a private detective to come up with the evidence. Not so long ago, of course, such a turn of events was not merely the stuff of fiction but many a court case in this country. In […]

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