Rachel Davenport, Co-founder and Director at AlphaBiolabs, discusses the role that Drug, Alcohol and DNA testing can play in ...

The shortlist for the LexisNexis Legal Awards 2025 has been announced. The LexisNexis Legal Awards will be held at the Park ...

Family analysis: What factors should parties take into consideration in identifying realistic placement options for a child at the start of care proceedings? Sam Momtaz QC and Sharon Segal, of ...

Despite disability being a Section 25 factor in its own right, there is a dearth of resources specifically addressing the same. Often rolled into earning capacity, disability in one or more parties to ...

Six months on from the implementation of changes to FPR rules surrounding NCDR, this article takes the opportunity to reflect holistically on: the aims of the changes; whether they have helped or ...

A teenage Jehovah's Witness who was crushed in a car accident has died after refusing a blood transfusion in hospital. The schoolboy, aged 15, was airlifted to hospital from the incident in Smethwick, ...

In July 2024 after three years of hearings and adjournments Mrs Justice Arbuthnot handed down her judgment in AA v ZZ a case which she described as unusual and perplexing. The Applicant wanted a child ...

A will is revoked by the testator’s marriage or civil partnership. The Law Commission has consulted twice on whether this rule should be retained in modern conditions. The author examines the ...

*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 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 recent decision of the Court of Appeal in Haley v Haley [2020] EWCA Civ 1369 (case report at [2021] Fam Law 37) settled an important issue for family arbitration. It established that contested ...