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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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 ...

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Sir James Munby, President of the Family Division, has issued a revised Practice Direction 12J of the Family Procedure Rules 2010 which came into force on 2 October 2017. The Practice Direction ...

When Home Secretary Theresa May announced the statutory inquiry into child sexual abuse she also requested a moratorium on the destruction of materials relating to child protection matters. In line ...

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 ...

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 ...

HM Courts and Tribunals Service (HMCTS) has made available new training on the subject of HMCTS Kinly Cloud Video Platform (CVP), which sets out what CVP is, how to access a CVP room through the ...

What is ‘non-molestation’? How do family courts, by order, deal with ‘molestation’, as it is now defined in law? What is ‘domestic violence’ or (if different) ‘domestic abuse’? Each of these different ...