Recent lectures given by members of 1 Hare Court in downloadable text format. To access a downloadable file, click on its title.

• Family Law Seminar 22nd November 2007
  [: November 08, 2007 ]
  Valentine Le Grice QC and Nicholas Yates will speak at a seminar hosted by Barlow Robbins LLP.

• McFarlane and Parlour, The Unanswered Questions, by Nicholas Mostyn QC
  [London: December 07, 2004 ]
  A lecture by Nicholas Mostyn QC, discussing the outcomes in McFarlane and Parlour and the questions which they left unanswered.

• International Children
  [Lecture by Michael Nicholls: November 06, 2003 ]
  Conventions in Conflict and Brussels II, a new look at the Article 13(b) defence under the Hague Convention and more complications on the way

• Ancillary Relief Update
  [Lecture by Philip Moor QC: October 16, 2003 ]
  Philip Moor QC considers recent developments in money cases in a lecture given to the Family Law Bar Association on 16 October 2003

• The new approach to costs in ancillary relief
  [Lecture by Nicholas Cusworth: October 02, 2003 ]
  The Court of Appeal outlines a new approach to costs and re-visits the Gojkovic guidelines

• The family home, the bank and undue influence
  [Lecture by John Wilson: January 20, 2003 ]
  Notes of a lecture by John Wilson, in which he considers actual and presumed undue influence in the light of the House of Lords decision in Etridge (No 2); with an explanation of how the law reached Etridge through Morgan v Natwest Bank Plc, Barclays Bank v O'Brien and CICB v Pitt; with advice as to the duties of solicitors if they are protecting themselves when giving independent legal advice on charges and guarantees.

• Pre-Nuptial Agreements
  [Lecture by Jeremy Posnansky QC to London solicitors: November 12, 2002 ]
  This paper by Jeremy Posnansky QC considers the approach of the English courts to pre-nuptial agreements, analyses the cases in which they have featured and discusses points which arise when a pre-nuptial contract is being considered or drafted.

• Cohabitation Law - Any chance of reform?
  [Lecture by Rebecca Bailey-Harris: September 09, 2002 ]
  Rebecca Bailey-Harris considers the system of cohabitation law and prospects for reform after the Law Commission's much awaited paper.

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