Healthy and unhealthy relationships – How to spot the warning signs
Domestic Abuse Awareness Month 2026: A healthy relationship should be built...
Debunking The Myths of Domestic Abuse
Domestic Abuse Awareness Month 2026: Serena Djiakouris, a solicitor in Good...
Creating a Domestic Abuse Safety Plan – What You Need To Know
Domestic Abuse Awareness Month 2026: Find out how to create a domestic abus...
Practical Tips on How to Support Someone Struggling With Domestic Abuse
Domestic Abuse Awareness Month 2026: Learn how to support someone experienc...
Day of Memory for Victims of so-called Honour-Based Abuse
Honour-based violence is a serious form of abuse that can involve coercion,...
Domestic Abuse Protection Orders
Domestic Abuse Protection Orders (DAPOs) are a new legal tool introduced un...
Children’s Voices to Move Further to the Forefront of Family Law Decisions
The UK is expanding child-focused courts to ensure children’s voices are he...
Surrogacy in England and Wales – What you need to know
Surrogacy offers a route to parenthood for individuals and couples who may...
Semana de sensibilização para o abuso sexual e a violência sexual: 2 de fevereiro a 8 de fevereiro de 2026
Sexual Abuse & Sexual Violence Awareness Week is the UK’s national campaign...
Dia na vida de um estagiário na Goodman Ray Solicitors
What is a typical day like for a Trainee Solicitor? Ayoola Ajayi and Olivia...
Semana da mediação familiar 2026
During Family Mediation Week, Goodman Ray's mediators help families resolve...
Dia Internacional da Mulher 2024: Uma entrevista com Peggy Ray
The theme for International Women’s Day 2024 is #InspireInclusion. In this...
O papel dos intermediários nos processos familiares
An intermediary can refer to a third party who is involved in assisting par...
Apoiamos o Dia Internacional da Mulher - 8 de março
Goodman Ray are proud to support the #EmbraceEquity campaign this Internati...
Goodman Ray apoia a ‘Semana NO MORE’, de 5 a 12 de março de 2023.
NO MORE week is an annual event from 5th to 12th March to raise awareness.....
‘Gone to the Dogs’ - Animais de estimação e divórcio no Tribunal de Família’
Pets & Divorce in the Family Court ‘Dog Law’ as it is sometimes known,...
Divorce Post the Coronavirus Pandemic – An Update
Now more than ever, many people are considering a divorce and need to know...
Novo escritório da Goodman Ray em Brighton....
We are very excited to announce the opening of our new office in Brighton,...
Uma celebração de Francis Barber
Goodman Ray moved into 9 Gough Square in January 2022. It was then known as...
É com tristeza que comunicamos a morte de Joanna Bosanquet.
É com grande tristeza que comunicamos o falecimento de Joanna Bosanquet no sábado, 16 de julho...
Happy International Women’s Day!
Happy International Women’s Day! We’re excited to celebrate Internat...
We stand firm stand with in the fight against racism.
We stand firm stand with in the fight against racism. On Sunday 4th July,...
How much does a lawyer cost?
Finding yourself in a situation where you need to take legal advice when re...
Public Law – Understanding the Local Authority and Children
Public Law – Understanding the Local Authority and Children When a lo...
Goodman Ray apoia o movimento Black Lives Matter
Goodman Ray supports Black Lives Matter Mutual respect and diversity are ce...
Rapto de crianças e Coronavírus
In simple terms, international parental child abduction occurs when one par...
A revisão da proteção das crianças nos tribunais de família será eficaz?
On May 21st 2019, ministers announced that a panel of experts would review...
Serviços sociais e crianças: As diferentes fases do processo de proteção da criança
This guide breaks down the key stages of the child protection process in En...
Qual é a diferença entre um advogado, um solicitador e um barrister?
So you find yourself in need of legal advice. But who should you turn to...
Reviravolta do Governo na política de exigir que as vítimas de casamentos forçados paguem os custos de repatriamento
The UK government has acted to reverse its policy of making British victims...
Publicação de um projeto de lei de referência sobre o abuso doméstico
The government has published a draft Domestic Abuse Bill which aims to bett...
Qual é a melhor forma de abordar um divórcio?
Yahoo Style has recently been in touch with Thomas Brownrigg, a Partner and...
Novos sócios e solicitadores na Goodman Ray
We are pleased to announce some new promotions at Goodman Ray. Thomas Brown...
Casamento forçado no Reino Unido
The issues around forced marriage are by no means new, but there has been a...
Can perpetuators of domestic abuse ever change?
Every year more than a million people are victims of domestic abuse in the...
Parental Alienation – recent developments
The current law provides that a couple can divorce if there has been an ‘ir...
Chegou a altura do divórcio sem culpa?
The current law provides that a couple can divorce if there has been an ‘ir...
Proteção das crianças e dos seus direitos no que se refere à utilização de decisões de alojamento seguro, de decisões de privação de liberdade tomadas ao abrigo da jurisdição inerente e do Tribunal de Proteção
In this article we will consider the powers of the Family Court to deprive...
What is the current position in respect of public funding for women’s refuges?
In October 2017, a 54-page document was drafted by the Department for Commu...
New Zealand introduces domestic violence leave
New Zealand MP, Jan Logie, initially proposed a new bill that introduced pa...
Is it the end for the Family Drug and Alcohol Court (FDAC) National Unit?
The Family Drug and Alcohol Courts (FDACs) were pioneered by the retired Di...
Thum v Thum [2018] EWCA Civ 624
The Court of Appeal recently had to determine the issue of effective servic...
O Supremo Tribunal decide que a lei sobre uniões civis é incompatível com a Convenção Europeia dos Direitos do Homem
On 27th June 2018 the Supreme Court unanimously decided that the UK’s law o...
A evolução da legislação relativa ao casamento forçado no Reino Unido
Until relatively recently, forced marriage was not a specific criminal offe...
Domestic Abuse Bill consultation and the Law Society’s response
On the 31 May, the Government published a consultation in preparation for t...
Thompson v Ragget and others [2018] EWHC 688
If a cohabiting couple do not make wills and one passes away, the survivor...
Revisão do protocolo para o encaminhamento de famílias pelo tribunal para centros de contacto para crianças
A revised protocol for referrals of families by the court to child contact...
Is it time for No Fault Divorce?
Late last month Resolution – a family law practitioners group – met for the...
Transferência da residência de uma criança quando uma das partes não cumpre uma decisão de assistência à família
Judgment in the recent case of Re C (A Child) [2018] EWHC 557 (Fam) has bee...
Should victims be cross examined by domestic abusers in the family courts?
Since the abolition of Legal Aid for the majority of family cases in 2013,...
Quando é que um casamento pode ser anulado?
The vast majority of couples looking to dissolve a marriage do so by the di...
Mais uma utilização abusiva da secção 20 da Lei da Criança de 1989 - quando é que isto vai parar?
Herefordshire Council v AB [2018] EWFC 10 is a judgment handed down earlier...
Novas orientações práticas para os processos por rapto internacional de crianças
Sir James Munby issued practice guidance: Case Management and Mediation of...
O que constitui um comportamento coercivo numa relação íntima?
Domestic abuse may not always be in a physical form. A victim may not recog...
Cuidados partilhados dos filhos em caso de separação
When parents separate, issues in respect of the future arrangements for car...
Os testes de polígrafo são admissíveis como prova em processos familiares?
Polygraph testing, more commonly referred to as lie detector testing, has b...
Ouvir para compreender
It is the Family Mediators Association Mediation Week this week, and a welc...
Mito do casamento de direito comum e dos acordos de coabitação
The cohabiting family is the fastest growing family type in England. Despit...
Bitcoin Frenzy- O Tribunal de Família está preparado para este novo desenvolvimento?
Despite the many reforms in family law, one could argue that the family cou...
