The Children’s Commissioner has published a new report as to the deaths of Children In Need. ‘Child in need’ is an umbrella term including looked after children, children on a child protection plan, ...

Rachel Davenport, Co-founder and Director at AlphaBiolabs, breaks down everything you need to know about AlphaBiolabs’ industry-leading laboratory testing services for legal matters. From professional ...

On 11 December 2024 the CPS announced that Urfaqn Sharif, father of Sara Sharif, a ten year old girl, and stepmother, Beinash Batool, had been convicted of her murder. Sara’s uncle, Faisal Malik, who ...

In Arbili v Arbili [2015] EWCA Civ 542 the duties of a client and his/her lawyer over documents unlawfully obtained by the client was reviewed by the Court of Appeal. There were two appeals. The first ...

Following on from the draft private law orders published in late January, new versions have been circulated which have some minor changes and corrections and also include Welsh versions. For ease of ...

According to the latest Freedom of Information request from the Ministry of Justice (MoJ), publicly funded family mediation continues to decline since changes to public funding in April 2013.

The problem with the latest report from the Centre for Social Justice published last Monday (Family breakdown in the UK: it's NOT about divorce) is not what it says, but how it suggests the social ...

Timothy Scott QC and Jonathan Tod, Barristers, 29 Bedford Row Chambers. In most areas of family finance the jurisdictional basis upon which the English court is entitled to entertain an application is ...

Third party interventions have been relatively rare in the Chitty, 1834 'The Practice of Law', at 497-498). An early explanation of the practice can be found in Dalrymple v Dalrymple (1811): ‘The ...

Last night's Panorama programme shown on BBC 1 highlighted the case of a couple whose three-month-old son was put on the Child Protection Register when neither parent could explain how the child broke ...

Rather like the last piece, there’s something of a similarity between politics and negotiations in family law – last time it was that promises in manifestos and promises in care plans can have less ...

Sir James Munby, President of the Family Division, reiterates the message being given as he embarks upon his tour of every care centre in the country. He discusses the reforms currently being faced by ...