The winners of the LexisNexis Legal Awards 2025 were announced in a glittering awards ceremony on Thursday 13 March at a ...

On 14 January 2014 the President issued a draft Revised Bundles Practice Direction for discussion and comment ([2014] Fam Law 226). Following further amendments we now have the new Practice Direction.

2017 marks the 25th edition of The Family Court Practice (the Red Book), with the first edition having been published in 1993, at a time when the legal landscape was very different. When the first ...

This article explores the principles of care for children deprived of their liberty including the Nuffield Family Justice Observatory’s recent recommendations on the care provision for children who ...

Most will agree that the relationship between the 1980 and 1996 Hague Conventions is a match made in heaven. However the intersection between the 1970 Hague Evidence Convention and the 1980 Hague ...

Once viewed as an exception, shared care arrangements are now fast becoming the go-to solution for many courts in private child arrangements disputes. However, is this shift happening too rapidly?

In the case of PMC (a child by his mother and litigation friend FLR) v A Local Health Board [2024] EWHC 2969 (KB) Nicklin J handed down a significant judgment on applications for anonymity and ...

In this article the author considers the law and practice surrounding modern cremation and the cremation aspects of the Law Commission’s recent consultation paper on Burial and Cremation.

As is well known the fact of joint beneficial ownership can be recorded in a deced of trust and where such is absent the courts can declare the existence of a common intention constructive trust (CICT ...

In this article Shiva Ancliffe KC and Caroline Croft set out the law in relation to the designation of care and supervision orders, highlighting the relevant statutory provisions and extracting the ...

The child had been created by a traditional surrogacy arrangement; the surrogate was thus the child’s biological mother. She did not wish to care for her son but wanted contact with him in order that ...

It briefly considers how to approach enforcement proceedings then looks at two realistic case studies. In doing so it highlights some of the legal and procedural issues that can arise in such ...