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, ...

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 ...

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, ...

The movement towards open adoption from public care in the UK has been emerging from research with patchy application in practice. The possibility of continued relationships between birth relatives ...

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 ...

Does this ring a bell? You sit opposite a client whose face gradually lengthens, whose mouth drops and whose eyes widen in dismay and disbelief as you describe how long it takes to bring matrimonial ...

The Family Justice Council has published new Guidelines for judges prepared to meet children who are the subject of court proceedings. The Guidelines, which have been approved by the President of the ...