The LexisNexis Legal Awards 2025 shortlist has been released, celebrating the exceptional talent and achievements within the ...

The Children’s Commissioner has submitted written evidence to the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill Committee.

The #ValueOurLove campaign is calling on Rachel Reeves to step up and ensure kinship carers receive the support they need to ...

Settling cases is rewarding for a family lawyer. Sometimes we need help in doing so, in particular the help of a lawyer/mediator adept at finding an imaginative solution in a challenging situation.

Nearly 600 barristers, solicitors, judges, academics and other family law practitioners will gather in central London tonight for the prestigious annual Family Law Awards. During the eighth annual ...

Timothy Scott QC and Jonathan Tod, Barristers, 29 Bedford Row Chambers. In most areas of family finance the jurisdictional basis upon which the English court is entitled to entertain an application is ...

Lord Justice Goldring has appointed as Senior Presiding Judge for England and Wales, with effect from 1 January 2010. Lord Justice (Sir John) Goldring is currently Deputy Senior Presiding Judge, and ...

See also, Revisiting child abduction: solving the problems in Nicolaou and Kayani, an exclusive article written by the Law Commission. The law relating to kidnapping, false imprisonment and child ...

The Final Report of Professor Eileen Munro's of Review of Child Protection, A child-centred system, is published today. Professor Munro's analysis finds that local areas should have more freedom to ...

In JL v AO (Babies Relinquished for Adoption) [2016] EWHC 440 (Fam), [2016] FLR (forthcoming and reported at [2016] Fam Law 556) Mr Justice Baker gave leading guidance on cases concerning babies ...

There are more than 85 unofficial Sharia courts operating in the UK, a new report by the rightwing think tank Civitas has revealed. The courts, which usually apply Sharia law in family or financial ...