Protecting children at risk of abuse and stopping vulnerable children falling through the cracks are at the heart of a ...

The Children's Commissioner has responded to the sentencing of the father and stepmother of Sara Sharif: ...

The Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service (SCTS) has released new simplified divorce and dissolution forms of application. As a result of legislation repealing Council Regulation EC 2201/2003, the ...

The Child Support Agency (CSA) has demanded child support payments from a man who donated his sperm to a lesbian couple to conceive two children. The couple have since split up and the biological ...

Until relatively recently practitioners dealing with financial remedy work were rarely troubled by the issue of costs at the conclusion of a contested final hearing. However with the introduction from ...

On Friday 4 December 2010, the EU Justice Ministers approved a draft EU Council Regulation about which country's laws should be applied on divorce and legal separation, the so-called applicable law ...

Family analysis: What factors should parties take into consideration in identifying realistic placement options for a child at the start of care proceedings? Sam Momtaz QC and Sharon Segal, of ...

Part IV of the Family Law Act 1996 (the 1996 Act) sets out the basic legislative framework for the protection of victims of Domestic Violence in England and Wales. With very limited exceptions all ...

Family Justice Reformed (second edition: June 2017) contains detailed commentary on the Single Family Court and the Children and Families Act 2014, Pts 1 and 2 (which deal with family justice), ...

Nigel Shepherd is in the hot seat facing questions from Rebecca Bailey-Harris of 1 Hare Court in the latest episode in our Family Law Insights series. In addition to being National Head of Family Law ...

Congratulations to family lawyers Mr Justice Cohen and Mrs Justice Gwynneth Knowles, who were sworn in as High Court Judges yesterday, consequential to the retirement of Sir Antony Edwards-Stuart and ...

This article (the first of two) considers the evidence of any witness in family proceedings where that evidence diverges from the general procedural rules (as explained below) for evidence in family ...