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 ...

Two leading adoption organisations have issued urgent calls for a full, cross-government review of support for adopted children and their families, following a BBC investigation highlighting rising ...

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 ...

The Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, the Right Honourable The Lord Burnett of Maldon has appointed Her Honour Judge Corbett to be a Senior Circuit Judge, Designated Family Judge Appointment ...

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?” ...

The House of Commons Library has published a briefing paper considering when polygamous marriages might be legally recognised. Currently to be recognised as legally valid all marriages which take ...