Divorce report, intellectual threats, High Court possession, & Undertakings
FREEDOM ON LINE
Sorry, divorce practitioners. The online project is continuing to go well (see Civil way, 7 April 2017). Petitions (applications, if you must) have been available for online completion in ever-so-user-friendly fashion by all patronising the East Midlands Regional Divorce Centre (RDC) in Nottingham and not just the cherry picked since 31 July 2017. This service was extended to the West Midlands RDC in Stoke last week and will hit the South West RDC in Southampton at the beginning of next month. The petition has to be downloaded and lodged but online filing (once the respondent has been ejected from the study) and fee payment (but not out of the matrimonial assets) are set to follow in a matter of months. Foreign marriage cases are currently excluded but will join in sooner or later. The endgame (sorry, again) looks to be around spring of 2019.
THREATENING LAW
OK, intellectual property law may not usually detain you unduly but could you hold on for just a minute and understand why the specialists can