Legal Aid Agency calls for more family legal aid capacity
The Legal Aid Agency has called for greater capacity in areas across the country and has invited firms to submit bids to support access to legal advice and justice. Providers will deliver work under the 2024 Standard Civil Contract with bids encouraged in Dorset, Dudley, East Sussex, Hartlepool, Knowsley, Sandwell, Solihull and St Helens. Issues […]
New Business and Property Division set to replace Chancery Division
All Business and Property Courts are set to become part of a new Business and Property Division of the judiciary. The changes – which will include the Property, Trusts and Probate list – are intended to consolidate the current structure, which sees Business and Property Courts spread across both the King’s Bench and Chancery Divisions. […]
Profile: Sophia Mellor, partner at Blythe Liggins
Sophia Mellor qualified in 2007 and initially practised as a criminal solicitor. She later moved to practise in family law, holding a mixed caseload of private and public family law matters for several years. Sophia now specialises in financial remedy matters following divorce and in private law children work. She is the head of the […]