A number of organisations (including Resolution, the Bar Council, and the Law Society of England and Wales) have written a joint letter to the Guardian imploring the government to reform the law as it relates to unmarried cohabiting couples. As things stand, such couples have very little legal protection on separation.
In July 2018, the Court of Appeal handed down an important judgment setting out in what circumstances care providers are required to pay the national minimum wage (NMW) to their workers for sleep-ins.
The High Court has, in an important decision with wide-ranging implications, ruled that the couple’s Islamic marriage falls within the remit of the matrimonial law of England & Wales.