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 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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Whilst referrals rose by 6% in England between 2009-10 and 2015-16, an ‘investigative turn’ has seen a 93% increase in section 47 child protection investigations. There are few findings of physical ...

A few months ago I was asked to speak on a panel at the Voice of the Child Conference 2014. My topic was whether the family court is the right solution for cases involving children and young people. I ...

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] ...

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 ...

The President of the Family Division has a issued a revised Public Law Outline(PLO) and pilot practice direction, as well as a number of supporting guidance documents. There are three President's ...

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 ...