Hannah Viet considers an unusual case involving a claim by an adult child against his parents and the extensive arguments submitted in support of that claim There is no jurisdiction for a child to bring a claim for financial relief against a party to a subsisting marriage. In FS v RS [2020], Sir James Munby …
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Wills & Trusts Law Reports | Winter 2018 #170The claimant had cohabited with her partner for 11 years until his untimely death, which was caused by the admitted negligence of the first and second defendants.
Under s1 of the Fatal Accidents Act 1976 (FAA), the claimant, as a cohabiting partner for more than two years, was entitled to bring a claim for damages as a dependant of the deceased. This claim was settled by the first and second defendants, who then took no active role in these proceedings. However, the claimant was not able to bring a claim for bereavement damages under s1A FAA, as...
Meredith Thompso n investigates the evolving, and slightly contradictory, position of same-sex parents ‘The European Court of Human Rights has stated that a Member State must be able to point to particularly convincing and weighty reasons to justify a difference in treatment between heterosexual and homosexual people.’Although, at the time of writing, we still await …
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