Family Law 2026-2027: What’s Changing and Why It Matters. A Live Online Conference

This online Family Law Update three-hour conference, to be held on 24 September, is presented by a panel of seven speakers covering a selection of topical issues and new twists on perennial problems for family lawyers. These range widely, with full details below.

The conference can be streamed live to your desktop, laptop or phone, or you can watch the recording whenever you want. In either case, you will receive a free recording of the complete conference.

If you book just one place at £249 + VAT, a further 20 colleagues from the same organisation can participate completely free of charge.

Organisations with 4 or fewer partners or directors can opt for just one place (with no free places) for £99 + VAT

Additional places are £20 each.

Topics to be Covered Include:

- Domestic Abuse

- Cohabitation Reform

- Financial Remedies Reform: Is the Age of Wide Judicial Discretion Coming to an End?

- International Child Abduction and Domestic Abuse: Retention Abroad, Criminalisation and the Hague Tension

- Qualifying Nuptial Agreements: Drafting Pre-Nups and Post-Nups for the New Regime

- Intervener Claims and FDRs: Is the Current Approach Still Right?

Speakers

Hannah Markham KC, Head Of 36 Family, Chair of the FLBA

Amanda Phillips-Wylds, Family Law Partners

Alexander Laing, Coram Chambers

Agata Osinka, International Family Law Group

Sarfraz Ali, Withers

Elizabeth Bowden, College Chambers

Luke Nelson, 3PB

Learning Outcomes

By attending this conference, delegates will:

• Gain an up-to-date understanding of important developments affecting family law practice.
• Consider current and proposed reforms relating to cohabitation and financial remedies.
• Examine whether proposed financial remedies reforms could reduce the traditionally wide discretion available to the courts.
• Understand the procedural and strategic issues involved when third parties become involved in financial remedy proceedings.
• Consider the effect of the increased emphasis on non-court dispute resolution on financial remedy cases involving third parties.
• Explore the complex relationship between domestic abuse, international child abduction, retention abroad, criminalisation and the Hague Convention.
• Develop a clearer understanding of the proposed regime for qualifying nuptial agreements.
• Identify practical points to consider when drafting pre-nuptial and post-nuptial agreements.
• Gain practical insights that can be applied when advising clients and managing family law cases.

Important Notes about Booking

1. Payment can be made by credit or debit card or alternatively by invoice. The option to pay by invoice is below the pay by card option in the booking form

2. If you don't have the complete list of who will be attending you can book for those that you know will be attending and add the others at a later date

3. Please ensure that, when booking, you get colleagues' email addresses entirely correct as failure to do so will probably mean that they will not receive joining instructions

The Legal Training Consultancy

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