Leading drug, alcohol and DNA testing laboratory, AlphaBiolabs, has made a £500 donation to Blackburne House in Liverpool as part of its Giving Back campaign.

MON 01/03/2010 - The Legal Services Commission has opened the tender process for 2010 civil legal aid contracts in family (including family mediation) and social welfare. The current contracts come to ...

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 ...

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On 14 January 2014 the President issued a draft Revised Bundles Practice Direction for discussion and comment ([2014] Fam Law 226). Following further amendments we now have the new Practice Direction.

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 ...

The trends in divorce by fact proven are traced from 1971, when the Divorce Reform Act 1969 was enacted in England and Wales. The background to the Act is explored in John Haskey’s article for the ...

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 ...

The family law reforms are two working days away. The volume of material for family law professionals to read and digest is huge and the Children and Families Act 2014 is a biggie at 241 pages long.

Currently unmarried couples have no right in law to claim ownership of each other’s property on relationship breakdown. This should be well known but there are still misunderstandings amongst many ...

Rather like the last piece, there’s something of a similarity between politics and negotiations in family law – last time it was that promises in manifestos and promises in care plans can have less ...

Family procedural law is not as clear as it might be over when ‘a person who is not a party to the proceedings’ (a non-party) can be compelled to produce documents and other information into family ...