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Robert Purdie

Year of call: 1979

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Areas of Practice

Family law and related private client work.
• Ancillary relief, including preservation of assets.
• Children - private and public law, international child abduction, wardship and adoption
• Divorce, nullity, judicial separation, declarations as to marital status, legitimacy, parentage.
• Disputes between cohabitants.
• Civil partnerships.
• Claims under Trusts of Land and Appointments of Trustees Act 1996.
• Family provision - Claims under Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975.
• Equity, trusts and probate – Court of Protection.
• Private international law; domicile, immigration, nationality.
• Housing, residential landlord & tenant.
• Ecclesiastical law.

Education & Qualifications

LLB (Hons) University College, Cardiff

Professional Memberships

South Eastern Circuit
Family Law Bar Association
Ecclesiastical Law Society
Franco-British Lawyers Society

Publications

• Rayden and Jackson, Contributor, 17th Edn 1997
• Butterworths Family Law Guide, Contributor, 1997
• A Guide to the Family Law Act 1996, Co-author, 1996
• Matrimonial and Domestic Injunctions, Co-author, 1st Edn 1982, 2nd Edn 1987
• Atkins Court Forms ‘Husband and Wife', Contributor, 1985

Publications - articles

• A Need for Guidance - Committal Sentencing (2004) 37 Family Law Journal 15, 38 Family Law Journal 12
• The Matrimonial Mareva (1985) 5 Litigation 183
• Double Jeopardy in Family Committals (1985) 5 Litigation 5
• The Practical Effect of Richards v Richards (1983) 113 New Law Journal 759

Interests

Music and opera; food and wine.

Other Information

• Working knowledge of French and French Family Law.

Mr Robert Purdie

Case Profile

• Kennedy v Kennedy [2009] EWCA Civ 986; Re K (Rights of Custody: Spain) [2009] EWHC 1066 (Fam), [2010] 1 FLR 57; Re K [2009] EWHC 2057 (Fam) - whether an unmarried father had rights of custody for the purposes of the Hague Convention under Spanish Law; successful article 13 b defence.

• Harries v Bishop of Chester (2007) 9 Eccl LJ 141 – appeal to Archbishop against the revocation by Bishop of the licence of a priest-in-charge.

• Re H-D (Children) [2001] EWCA Civ 402 - application for permission to appeal against sole residence order.

• J v J (A Minor: Property Transfer) [1993] 2 FLR 56 - meaning of ‘parent' in Children Act 1989, Schedule 1.

• K v K [1986] 2 FLR 411 – discretionary stay of English proceedings where concurrent foreign proceedings.

• Webb v Webb [1986] 1 FLR 541, CA - jurisdiction to protect former spouse by injunction after decree absolute.

• B v B (Custody of Children) [1985] FLR 166, CA - factors to be taken into account in the balancing exercise in custody proceedings.

• Re J (A Minor)(Wardship) (1984) 5 FLR 535 - confidentiality of wardship proceedings and the use of wardship documents in criminal proceedings.