English family law has maintained a clear separation between children and financial remedy proceedings; a system which generally works well. However, in international relocation cases, this division ...

Adoption UK welcomes confirmation of the Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund (ASGSF) which has provided specialist ...

Celebrating the excellence, resilience, and humanity at the heart of family law. The LexisNexis Family Law Awards 2025 are officially open for entries – and with them, a unique opportunity for ...

the Children's Commissioner has released a statement about Ofcom's new safety codes: "The Online Safety Act places a legal requirement on Ofcom to consult my Office about the Children’s Safety Code ...

This article examines the difficult and often emotive issue of disclosure of highly personal information about one party to other parties within public law proceedings under the Children Act 1989. The ...

In Wolverhampton City Council v JA & Ors [2017] EWFC 62, Keehan J dealt with a care case which involved allegations of sexual abuse of two young girls. They were aged 13 (X) and 12 (Y) at the time of ...

Two recent family court decisions explore whether the statutory threshold under the Children Act 1989 can be met when parental harm occurs before a child’s birth or after a parent’s death. In Re W (A ...

Marie Law, Head of Toxicology at AlphaBiolabs, discusses the many benefits of oral fluid drug testing for child welfare and protection matters. Drug testing plays a crucial role in safeguarding ...

The Court of Protection uses the Mental Capacity Act 2005 to determine a protected party’s (P’s) capacity to make decisions and where P lacks capacity to determine P’s best interests in that area of ...

The labours of the Private Law Working Group, set up by the President of the Family Division back in August 2013, have now come to fruition and on 22 April the new Practice Direction 12B - Child ...