Cost Update for Child Abduction and Wardship. When reviewing current costs limitation for Child Abduction and Wardship it has ...

HMCTS recently updated their guidance on ‘Sharing Information outside of court in family proceedings’. Sharing information about a case is sometimes called ‘disclosure of information’ or ...

Funding for preventive services doubled to over half a billion pounds to drive restoration in family and parenting support ...

The survey revealed 94% of participants believe emotional abuse in childhood can have a lasting psychological effect well into adulthood. We’re releasing this data as part of our Listen up, Speak up ...

A powerful short film revealing what growing up in kinship care is like was premiered by Kinship at a celebratory screening in Hackney, London, on Tuesday 18 March. Young Londoners with firsthand ...

In Re G (Residence: Same Sex Partners) [2005] 2 FLR 957, the parties had cohabited in a same-sex relationship for 8 years, during which time the respondent gave birth to two children conceived by ...

Liza Gordon-Saker has been appointed to be a District Judge of the Principal Registry of the Family Division with effect from Monday 25 January 2010. Mrs Gordon-Saker, 50, heads Fenners Chambers ...

See also, Revisiting child abduction: solving the problems in Nicolaou and Kayani, an exclusive article written by the Law Commission. The law relating to kidnapping, false imprisonment and child ...

Private Client analysis: Amendments to mental health legislation aim to correct some of the current system’s obvious failings. Ben Troke, solicitor at Browne Jacobson LLP, discusses the Mental ...

Julien Foster, Barrister, Goldsmith Chambers. A new President's Direction (PD) in relation to court bundles came into force on 2 October 2006. It replaces the existing President's Practice Direction ...