A new Bar Council report has warned that family legal aid is becoming unsustainable, with many barristers saying they would ...

The government has announced plans to establish a new national Child Protection Authority (CPA), intended to strengthen ...

New figures published by the Department for Education on 11 December provide a detailed picture of how child sexual abuse ...

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Women’s Aid has responded to the Ministry of Justice’s latest package of criminal justice reforms and funding commitments, describing the measures as a positive step for survivors but emphasising that ...

Resolution’s Finance, Pensions and Tax Committee has analysed the Autumn Budget delivered on 26 November and highlighted several changes that may affect financial settlements, maintenance arrangements ...

*but didn’t ask because… if you were that interested in Chancery work you wouldn’t have become a family lawyer 'I’m a common-law wife' (No you’re not) 1. A classic trope of the horror movie is the ...

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The ‘Resolution Approach’ provides a unique method of assessing risk in circumstances where carers maintain denial following findings that they have perpetrated injuries on their child. Traditional ...

The issue of single parent families has attracted the attention of headline writers for more than a generation. But in the reporting of data relating to them, much of it centres on the two million ...

Family analysis: Sarah Keily partner at Thomson Snell & Passmore in Tunbridge Wells discusses the decision in CH v CT [2018] EWHC 1310 (Fam) [2018] All ER (D) 03 (Jul) which illustrates the need to ...

In this article published in Family Law August 2024, the authors expand on their June 2023 article, ‘Recent scientific developments in hair strand testing and racial bias in current practices of hair ...