Day 2 of Family Mediation Week Today’s focus is to provide an insight into what happens in a mediation session. Some people are sceptical about what...
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Life as a Trainee Solicitor
Life as a Trainee Solicitor Hello everybody, if you are reading this, chances are you are interested in a career in law and are at some stage of...
Employment Law changes and cases in 2021
Employment Law changes and cases in 2021 Looking ahead – Employment Law changes and cases in 2021 Before looking ahead to 2021 we want to...
Children at home due to Coronavirus – Q&A’s for Employers
Children at home due to Coronavirus – Q&A's for Employers Following the Governments’ announcement of a further National lockdown until February...
Alcohol Awareness Week 16-22nd November 2020
Alcohol Awareness Week 16-22nd November 2020 A new survey commissioned by Alcohol Change UK, shows that almost 1 in 3 drinkers (29%) have been...
Gaslighting
Gaslighting At Consilia, we are pleased to share with you a guest blog, written by divorce coach, Danielle Barbereau on the important issue of...
Redundancy and Notice Pay – The Arcadia Group ‘U-turn’
Redundancy and Notice Pay – The Arcadia Group ‘U-turn’ https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2020/814/pdfs/uksi_20200814_en.pdf For those who will...
Settlement Agreements – 7 Steps to Success
Settlement Agreements – 7 Steps to Success 1. ‘Without Prejudice’ vs ‘Protected’ conversations To get the ball rolling on offering a settlement...
Shortlisted for Family Law Dispute Resolution Team of the Year
We are delighted to announce that we have again shortlisted in the category of 'Family Law Dispute Resolution Team of the Year' at this year’s...
Alternate Dispute Resolution, Arbitration
Alternate Dispute Resolution Covid 19 has forced all of those working in the legal sector to think outside the box and consider other means...
A New Term in a New World: Sending children back to school during a pandemic
A New Term in a New World: Sending children back to school during a pandemic For separated parents, co-parenting has been tough throughout the...
Employment Law Mini Update
Employment Law - Mini Update Following on from the Chancellors announcements on Wednesday there have been several schemes implemented to aid...
Are you a victim of Coercive Control?
Are you a victim of Coercive Control? As a family solicitor over the last few months, more and more people that I have had initial consultations...
How will my pension be affected on divorce?
Covid-19 blog series: How will my pension be affected on divorce? The current pandemic has thrown us all into a difficult period of...
Sarah Manning Promotion
Consilia Legal have recently promoted family solicitor and mediator Sarah Manning to Senior Associate Solicitor following her...
Talking to Children about Black Lives Matter
Cafcass who represent a voice of a child, have spoken to children about the impact of Covid-19 on Black and Asian communities and the racial...
Update on no fault divorce
Update on ‘no fault divorce’…. As you may recall, prior to the Coronavirus pandemic family solicitors around the country were campaigning for ‘no...
What is a support bubble
What is a support bubble? Further to the Government’s updates on 10th June 2020, we have seen further lifting of the lockdown restrictions...
Updated guidance for Employers and Businesses
Updated guidance for Employers and Businesses Following last weeks’ announcement the government has issued updated guidance which is very...
Mental Health Awareness Week Recommendations for Employers
Mental Health Awareness Week Recommendations for Employers This week the Mental Health Foundation are hosting the annual Mental Health Awareness...
Virtual Mediations – 8 Weeks on
Virtual Mediation – 8 Weeks on! How are we coping? We are now on week 8 of lock down and for me it has flown by and it now feels like the new norm....
Update and more commonly asked questions – 5th May 2020
Update and more commonly asked questions – 5th May 2020 Further to our raft of updates around Covid-19 and Furlough we have been asked to put...
£1510 Raised For CHSF
We are pleased to announce that our virtual quiz on Thursday evening was a success and some much needed fun was had by us all. Marie...
ECJ Rules on ‘worker’ status under WTD
ECJ Rules on ‘worker’ status under WTD Currently in Employment law there is much debate over who is classed as a worker. It has created a grey area...
Virtual Quiz to raise much needed funds for our chosen charity of 2020 – CHSF
On Thursday 30th April at 7pm we are holding a charity quiz for our partner charity the Children’s Heart Surgery Fund Quiz Master...
Covid-19. How does it impact on any existing child arrangements between separated parents
Following the announcement of the lockdown, we have been inundated with enquiries from our existing clients and new clients as to the effect...
COVID-19 changes the landscape of the family justice system
Two weeks ago, as a nation, we were thrust into new and unfamiliar territories of social distancing and self-isolation. Two weeks later and I am...
Online Family Mediation
At Consilia Mediation we are able to offer our clients a fully comprehensive mediation service including online mediation. Online mediation...
Carrying over annual leave during COVID-19/Coronavirus
Do you have questions around the subject of carrying over annual leave during COVID-19/Coronavirus pandemic? In this blog we will answer common...
Coronavirus Help for Employees and Self Employed
Further in our series of update notes regarding the Coronavirus and government interventions to assist Employees and the Self Employed we...