The Hague Convention announced: "On 6 May 2025, the Republic of the Philippines deposited its instrument of accession to the ...

The Chair of the Bar Council has welcomed new proposals in the Victims and Courts Bill that will automatically restrict ...

Isabelle Younane, Head of External Affairs at Women’s Aid, said: ...

Coram BAAF have released a brief overview of policy developments over recent times: They say: "Over the past few months the ...

The findings – published in a new report examining children’s experiences of domestic abuse – exposes how thousands of ...

Occasionally, as a family solicitor, I come across a case that makes me despair. Thankfully it’s rare, but that feeling overwhelmed me when I read the child contact case of Q and R (Intractable ...

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 ...

Minister thanks lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community for ‘selfless dedication’ to vulnerable children. The number of children adopted by lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender ( LGBT) ...

In the Blue ‘equalisation of income in retirement’ Corner we find Coleridge J in RP v RP [2006] EWHC 3409 (Fam), [2007] 1 FLR 2105 and David Salter (sitting as a Deputy High Court Judge) in B v B ...

In his 'View from the President's Chambers: the process of reform: an update' in July 2013, the President of the Family Division, Sir James Munby, explained his concern at the amount of time and money ...

*but didn’t ask because… if you were that interested in Chancery work you wouldn’t have become a family lawyer 1. A classic trope of the horror movie is the unexpected return from the dead of ...

The number of cohabiting couples across the UK now stands at 3.3 million, making it the fastest growing family form, and it has become the norm for first partnerships. Cohabitation: Law Practice and ...