Leading domestic abuse organisation Women’s Aid and Survivor Ambassador Claire Throssell MBE, delivered a petition calling ...

New figures show the number of people choosing to foster in England is declining for the third year running, with six per ...

The recent decision of the Court of Appeal in Haley v Haley [2020] EWCA Civ 1369 (case report at [2021] Fam Law 37) settled an important issue for family arbitration. It established that contested ...

The Lord Chancellor, David Lidington, has announced a long-awaited post-legislative review of the controversial Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (LASPO). The Government has ...

JOHN HAYES, Barrister, Zenith Chambers Leeds, PROFESSOR MARY HAYES, University of Swansea and JANE WILLIAMS, Senior Lecturer, University of Swansea In Re MA (Care Threshold) [2009] EWCA 853, [2010] ...

The case of Re C (A Child) [2016] EWHC 3171 (Fam) (case heading: London Borough of Tower Hamlets v M and F and Others), Pauffley J raises a number of issues over where the welfare of a child may be ...

The subject of cohabitation has come to the fore in recent years with the huge number of people who now cohabit in modern Britain for whatever reason. It has long been ignored by many lawyers and ...

Section 87 of the Housing Act 1985 provides that a person is qualified to succeed to a secure tenancy if he (or she) is the tenant’s spouse or another member of the tenant’s family and has resided ...

The Cafcass High Court team has taken over the 1980 Hague Abduction Convention cases previously handled by the team at the Principal Registry, High Holborn. This was part of a wider London ...

So - divorce rates have fallen (fifth year in a row) to an all-time low (well for the last 33 years, at least) at around 121,800 in 2008, a drop of about five per cent. The peak was in 2003 with ...

His Honour Judge Clifford Bellamy, Designated Family Judge for Leicester: A good social work chronology is of immense assistance to the judge. It provides the judge with a route-map through the ...

In what could represent a new frontier for the way that Schedule 1 (The Children Act 1989) applications are dealt with by the courts, DN v UD [2020] EWHC 627 (Fam) marks the first ever reported ...