Genesis 33.1-15 This sermon looks at forgiveness, by Esau to Jacob, looking at the South Africa experience under Nelson Mandela and what the bible teaches about forgiveness and its challenges for all of us Forgiveness0823
Romans 8.18-30 When Paul says the whole creation is groaning he surely could not have appreciated how hundreds of millions of people on our planet are anxious about the state of creation and how they agree creation seems to be vividly and tragically groaning. This passage has never been more so vital and relevant than now in late 2021. Ecology1021
Luke 4.1-13 We are the most globally inter connected people in the history of our planet. Statisticians have shown that for the vast majority of our world, connected to the Internet in any way, we are only six steps, intermediary people, away from being able to connect to everyone anywhere. Yet are we also the most lonely and isolated generation?…
2 Kings 2.1-15 Leith Samuel, the Minister of Above Bar Church in Southampton in my 20s used to say: live your life for what outlives life. Whatever we do here with our life should reap benefits longer term, if necessary beyond our mortal life. This morning I want to look at succession planning for us as Christians Succession0622
Whilst the UK has now left the EU, with a transition period until the end of December 2020, there remain a huge number of international families within the UK and the EU. There are already a great number of international families outside of Europe but with UK or EU connections. It is incumbent on both the UK and EU to…
Family law leaves the EU: guide: A summary guide for practitioners” is a new textbook published today, 20 October 2020, by LEXIS-NEXIS written by one of the world’s leading family lawyers, David Hodson. EUBookMedia1 https://www.lexisnexis.co.uk/store/products/family-law-leaves-the-eu-a-summary-guide-for-practitioners-skuuksku9781784734756FLLEU85541/details
My paper to the ERA conference in Trier in 2021 looking at several aspects of digital technology in family law systems worldwide ERAIT0121
The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child has in February 2021 passed provisions, directions, and guidance for the better protection of children in the digital environment. This is of fundamental importance globally given the digital lives many children worldwide now inhabit. UNDigitalChildren0321
The statutory criteria to decide what is a fair financial settlement on divorce comes from the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973, now almost 50 years old. In reality it derives from judge made law. This has the benefit of being responsive and able to change. It has the disadvantage that there is no public or policy input into the law…
The UK left the EU on 31 January 2020, but the law stayed the same until 11 PM on 31 December 2020. From that time onwards, EU laws no longer applied in England and Wales in respect of new proceedings. But the consequence of transitional arrangements is that EU laws will continue to apply for many years, perhaps decades,…
An article written with Rebecca Bailey Harris, barrister, of 1 Hare Court and already published in International Family Law Journal of Lexis Nexis A recent decision of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has addressed the definition of habitual residence for the purposes of divorce jurisdiction under Art 3 of BIIA. It has confirmed the…
With filing of family court proceedings in England and Wales being increasingly a digital experience, and when the time of filing can be crucial, in the midst of Brexit the government published a series of changes crucially switching the time from the artificiality of when the court office next opened its doors to real-time, digital time. Relatively little attention has…
A paper I wrote for the Law Society of a country considering changing the law to require the attendance of the parties themselves at all Family Court hearings and which may be of interest to other countries considering a similar change PartiesAtt0922
This is the tax guide which I prepare each financial year for the most relevant taxes which present to families, on commencement and also on separation and divorce. Specific advice should always be taken. TAXGUIDE202324
Mark 8.22-38 Christian teaching on seeing things as God sees them MarkSeeingSeemsImpossible0920
Mark 5.21-43 Holding onto faith during tough times MarkHealing0820
Mark 2.23 – 3.6 A review of Christian teaching on the sabbeth, whether Sunday or any other day MarkSabbeth0820
Matthew 13:1-23 (NIV): The Parable of the Sower Sower0720
Psalm 116 On Friday I buried my father. How do we give thanks when bewildered in life? Psalm116
Acts 2:4 and 36-41 What does it mean to live our lives here on earth as foreigners yet all along as citizens of heaven? Foreigners0420