The prestigious LexisNexis Legal Awards 2025 are open for entries, and we are thrilled to announce two special categories ...

The Family Law Awards 2024 shortlist has been released, celebrating the exceptional talent and achievements within the family law community. This prestigious event will once again bring together the ...

Marianna Michaelides and April Buxton, of the International Family Law Group LLP, look at the complex court orders that confirm with whom a child is to live and/or spend time. What is a child ...

The Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC), College of Policing and HMICFRS have published their findings in response to a police super-complaint submitted by the Suzy Lamplugh Trust on behalf ...

Dr George Hibbert MA, MBBS, Mrcpsych, DM, Consultant Psychiatrist and Clinical Lecturer. In the Legal Services Commission's consultation paper The Funding Criteria for Child Care Proceedings, ...

The story of the (authorised) police bug in the home of parents in care proceedings (see Cumbria County Council v M & Ors [2016] EWFC 27) to try to identify which parent had killed their child prompts ...

You may be aware that the recent Court of Appeal case of Re W [2016] EWCA Civ 793 has been causing some head scratching among commentators. There is no doubt that this was a difficult case. The CoA ...

In my last View, published in September [2016] Fam Law 1102, I drew attention to the seemingly relentless rise in the number of new care cases. The fact is that we are approaching a crisis for which ...

Nassim Nicholas Taleb wrote about black swans which, before explorers to Australia had discovered them for the first time, no one could ever have predicted their existence. It would have been ...

The Council of Europe European Commission for the Efficiency of Justice (CEPEJ) has adopted a series of concrete tools to help Member States to develop the use of mediation in areas – such as civil, ...

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 ...