A legal truism is that you need to put your best forward at trial and that you cannot count on an appeal to change the outcome. Appeals are based on identifying errors in law, mere disagreement with the trial judge’s
Few interlocutory judgments manage to say something useful about both civil procedure and substantive family law in the same breath. The recent decision of Greig AJ in the Western Cape Division does exactly that. On its face, it is an
Most people assume that once one spouse says, “I want a divorce,” the judge has no choice but to grant…
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“Hugh Anthony, who has 66,000 followers, has taken aim at ‘modern-day feminists’ who are ‘satanic freaks … masking [alleged murder] behind psychosis.’ Another man brags about dumping a woman because she empathised too much with Clancy’s postpartum psychosis. ‘I can’t
Human Rights Watch on Thursday criticized Ecuador’s newly enacted adoption law, which took effect on August 14 after lawmakers approved it 118-0, saying that provisions restricting adoption by lesbian, gay and bisexual persons and permitting the loss of
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BNJ & Anor v DZ & Anor [2026] QChC 13 (Link to AUSTLII).
An unusual matter, where two children had been born in 2025 following a surrogacy arrangement, where one child was the biological child of the intended parents,
We knew Judge Kreeger having infrequently appeared before her. We remember a Judge fully prepared, well versed in the law who carefully listened to both sides and then issued her ruling. Doesn’t seem like a lot to ask, and yet…As
