The Children's Commissioner has responded to the sentencing of the father and stepmother of Sara Sharif: ...

Protecting children at risk of abuse and stopping vulnerable children falling through the cracks are at the heart of a ...

DDJs sitting in civil work undertake a large bulk of administrative work in boxwork. This work realistically keeps the wheels of the County Court turning. Case management decisions taken in boxwork ...

There are more than 85 unofficial Sharia courts operating in the UK, a new report by the rightwing think tank Civitas has revealed. The courts, which usually apply Sharia law in family or financial ...

The judgment of Mr Justice Holman in Chai v Peng (No 2) [2014] EWHC 1519 (Fam), [2014] 2 FLR (forthcoming) permitting the wife to issue a replacement second petition upon the dismissal of her first, ...

Monday 20 to Sunday 26 February 2012 is LGBT Adoption and Fostering Week, organised by charity New Family Social to encourage more lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people to consider ...

The Government has announced the appointment a new chief executive and three commissioners to take charge of Doncaster Council. In April the previous government used statutory powers to intervene in ...

Until relatively recently practitioners dealing with financial remedy work were rarely troubled by the issue of costs at the conclusion of a contested final hearing. However with the introduction from ...

John Rosley, Rosleys Solicitors, Nottingham, Solicitor for the claimant. The case of Singh v Bhakar in which judgment was delivered in the Nottingham County Court on 24 July 2006, received a ...

In what could represent a new frontier for the way that Schedule 1 (The Children Act 1989) applications are dealt with by the courts, DN v UD [2020] EWHC 627 (Fam) marks the first ever reported ...

Just about every permutation of order in family proceedings has been considered in the Family Standard Orders project. However, family lawyers and litigants in person are given no suggested template ...