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Marilyn Stowe divorce blog (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Today I appeared on BBC Radio 4 Woman’s Hour in a debate with Baroness Ruth Deech about the subject of cohabitation. Related posts: Why Baroness Deech is wrong – by guest blogger Jonathan James Baroness Deech holds some strong views about divorce and financial... Cohabitation: England v Scotland – by guest blogger Jenny Wilmot Compared to England and Wales, Scotland is an idyll...
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Family Lore (Free subscription) | 16/10/2009
There is an interesting article by Anthony Julius (left) in the Financial Times today, in which he discusses reform of the ancillary relief laws, with reference to the views of Baroness Deech. He says that " reform based purely on making pre-nuptial agreements enforceable – as outlined by Baroness Ruth Deech on Tuesday – is not the way forward ". I agree there, although I'm not...
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Times Online (Free subscription) | 15/10/2009
European-style contracts between couples who are marrying should replace the discretion of judges in dividing a couple’s assets on divorce, a leading family lawyer has said.
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Heretical Sex (Free subscription) | 14/10/2009
Marrying a rich man is not an alternative to getting a career, barrister tells women Women should not be able to marry men for their money as an alternative to a career, a leading family law expert said yesterday. Baroness Deech said women should expect to work and that the law should be changed to prevent them living in comfort for life after a short marriage to a wealthy man. She called for pre-nuptial...
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Family Lore (Free subscription) | 13/10/2009
Baroness Deech is back in the news. In a speech today she will apparently say that our divorce laws (at least insofar as they relate to finances) should be remodelled along European lines. This will involve a community property regime, and pre-nuptial agreements being enforceable. The speech may be new but this is, in fact, old news - precisely what she was saying when she hit the headlines a month...
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The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 13/10/2009
Engaged couples should have to visit lawyers to discuss signing prenuptial agreements says Baroness Deech.
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Marilyn Stowe divorce blog (Free subscription) | 25/09/2009
Obtaining a training contract is never going to be an easy task, especially during this difficult economic time. In this post, I seek simply to make readers realise that although times are tough and jobs in the legal profession may be harder to come by than they used to be, there is light at the end of the tunnel and that big city firms are not necessarily the place to be anymore. Fiona Geldart is...
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Your future, today (Free subscription) | 24/09/2009
The papers reported the UK's new rules on assisted suicide this morning. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/law/article6845582.ece I will blog the issue of assisted suicide separately since it is an important futures issue in its own right. I think one of the most disturbing things here is that this hasn't been passed through the democratic process via parliament, but rolled out by the DPP....
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News (Free subscription) | 19/09/2009
Baroness Deech calls for fairer divorce laws for husbands THURS 17/09/2009 - Baroness Deech has called for an overhaul of family law and in particular for an end to the idea that women deserve half of their husbands' wealth on divorce. The chair of the Bar Standards Board made the comments on Tuesday in the first of six free public lectures she will give this year at Gresham College in London on Family...
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BenussiBlog (Free subscription) | 18/09/2009
One of the country’s most senior family lawyers, Baroness Deech, has criticised court awards to ex-wives of half a couple’s wealth. She says settlements that keep women in comfort at the expense of their former husbands should be scrapped – on the basis they are unfair to men and demeaning to women.
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Family Lore (Free subscription) | 18/09/2009
The Telegraph today reports a case that will have Baroness Deech smiling in smug satisfaction. As if to prove her argument that the ancillary relief system is unfair towards husbands, here we have poor William Murphy, who was left with only £450,000 out of the liquid assets of £3 million. Mr Murphy claims that the settlement was "unfair discrimination", and is appealing to the...
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Marilyn Stowe divorce blog (Free subscription) | 16/09/2009
Baroness Deech holds some strong views about divorce and financial settlements. The Times has reported that the academic lawyer, who chairs the Bar Standards Board, is to give a series of lectures this week. Her focus: the thorny issue of who gets what in terms of money after a divorce. “It is no wonder that [...] Related posts: Kitchen Confidential – by guest blogger Jonathan James Marilyn...
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 16/09/2009
It is surprising that feminists have remained silent on the issue of divorce, where one might expect a clear and demanding female voice. There has not been one since Baroness Summerskill opposed the 1969 divorce reform.
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The Business Insider (Free subscription) | 15/09/2009
Lady Deech, a UK judge, says divorce laws that split assets between the man and the woman 50-50 are unfair to the men and need to be reformed. Daily Mail : She says the system creates incentives to women who divorce their husbands: Divorce settlements that keep ex-wives in comfort at the expense of their former husbands should be scrapped, a legal expert has said. Baroness Deech condemned the doctrine...
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Family Lore (Free subscription) | 15/09/2009
With reference to my post yesterday, I've since read an edited extract of Baroness Deech's Gresham College lecture in the Guardian , and I now have the following further comments to make upon what she says: " The divorce courts are still trying to put women in the position they would have been in had the marriage not ended " - I sincerely hope not. It is correct that, as originally drafted,...
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