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Josiah-Lake Gardiner named as a leading firm in The Legal 500 UK 2020 & 2021

Josiah-Lake Gardiner are pleased to announce that the firm once again features in The Legal 500 UK as a leading Family Law firm. The Legal 500 is ‘widely acknowledged as the world’s largest legal referral guide (in which) firms and individuals are recommended purely on merit’. In this year’s edition, we are described as ‘a… Continue reading Josiah-Lake Gardiner named as a leading firm in The Legal 500 UK 2020 & 2021

What is Parental Alienation?

There is no strict definition of Parental Alienation in English law, but it is generally taken to describe a situation where a child has been deliberately manipulated, coerced or otherwise pressured to align themselves to one parent by the other parent. Usually, the consequence of Parental Alienation is that contact between the alienated parent and… Continue reading What is Parental Alienation?

Barlow’s Cohabitants and the Law, 4th edition by David Josiah-Lake

Part II of the 2018 edition of this book published on 18 May 2018 deals with the impact of relationship breakdown. Developments in the law relating to domestic abuse are discussed in Chapter 7, together with reforms to the homelessness legislation affording better protection for victims of such abuse. Domestic Violence Protection Notices (DVPNs) and… Continue reading Barlow’s Cohabitants and the Law, 4th edition by David Josiah-Lake