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 ...

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

The Bar Council has urged the government to abandon proposals that would restrict the use of jury trials, warning that such changes risk undermining public confidence in the criminal justice system.

Resolution’s Finance, Pensions and Tax Committee has analysed the Autumn Budget delivered on 26 November and highlighted ...

Women’s Aid has responded to the Ministry of Justice’s latest package of criminal justice reforms and funding commitments, ...

Children’s charity NSPCC has urged the government and criminal justice agencies to take urgent action to clear a growing backlog of child sexual abuse cases, warning that long delays are leaving ...

A recent decision of the Supreme Court, in the case of Waller-Edwards v One Savings Bank Plc, has broadened the circumstances in which lender banks must take steps to protect potential victims of ...

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 ...

Access to justice in family cases – this article gives details about the decline in legal aid for family work since the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012.

In this article Chloe Branton considers the current position regarding parental responsibility for married and unmarried fathers and outlines some recent and historic cases that have examined this ...

The Tipstaff is often one of the first topics of discussion raised by new clients who have been accused of abducting their children. Questions that I am regularly asked are “What is the Tipstaff?” ...