Updates

The consultation is to focus on whether there should be a new specific offence that captures patterns of coercive and ...

Re F (A Child) [2014] EWCA Civ 789 concerned an appeal by a Father whose daughter was the subject of ...

The original proceedings concerned an application under the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction by the ...

In April 2013 the Government implemented substantial legal aid reforms. In addition to the financial eligibility criteria, they placed an ...

1. MIAMS From 22 April 2014, it will be compulsory for any person seeking to make a ‘relevant family application’ ...

The principle changes as a result of the Children and Families Act 2014 to public law can be summarised as ...

The rule applies save in exceptional circumstances, focusing the courts on the core issue of determining whether the child should ...

The case before Sir Brian Leveson P and his fellow Justices in the Court of Appeal regarded LM a 41 ...

The father, Z, issued an application pursuant to the Hague Convention for return of his 13 year old daughter A ...

The President of the Family Division, Sir James Munby QC, has recently produced new guidance addressing what he believes to ...