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: ...

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 ...

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 ...

In Wodzicki v Wodzicki [2017] EWCA Civ 95 the trial judge held that the claimant held the legal title of a property on trust with the respondent having a life interest with any other interest to be ...

Dr Mike Shaw, Consultant Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist & Co-director FDAC National Unit and Nick Isaacs, Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist London FDAC In this seventh blog in our series ...

In CS v ACS (Consent Order: Non-Disclosure: Correct Procedure) [2015] EWHC 1005 (Fam), [2016] 1 FLR 131 the President, Sir James Munby, ruled that paragraph 14.1 of Practice Direction 30A of the ...

Since 2001, the number of cohabiting couple families has risen dramatically from 2.1 million to 2.9 million, according to new statistics from the Office for National Statistics. The figures show that ...

From 10 December 2014 it will be possible to convert civil partnerships into marriage. The year 2014 already represents a landmark for same-sex couples. In March, the first same-sex marriages were ...

Occasionally, a book comes along that excites you, not just for its content, but for its potential to change the landscape of family law for the better. Family Law Case Library (Children) is one of ...