Significant changes to the Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund (ASGSF) are coming into effect for 2025/26, with ...

The government has announced an extra £18 million for councils in England to speed up reforms to children’s social care, ...

The changes will be rolled out alongside the nationwide expansion of Best Start Family Hubs, which will offer wraparound ...

Victims of the most serious sexual and violent crimes could soon benefit from new “restriction zones” designed to confine ...

Family analysis: Siddique Patel solicitor at Shoosmiths discusses the decision of the Court of Appeal overturning that of Williams J when he ruled that an Islamic Nikah ceremony could be classed as a ...

Relationships have been in the news in 2018. Not only did we see two Royal weddings, but at the opposite end of the romance spectrum, in June the UK Supreme Court ruled that it was discriminatory not ...

Frances Harris Harcourt Chambers This article aims to debunk those myths surrounding autism and to encourage practitioners to have autism firmly on their radars when conducting public law proceedings.

Damian Woodward-Carlton QC Barrister 42 Bedford Row Rachael Claridge 1 Crown Office Row Re M (A Child – Private Law Children Proceedings – Case Management – Intimate Images) (2022) EWHC 986 (Fam).

The President of the Family Division has very recently handed down his decision in this matter of Re: S (A Child) (Jurisdiction) [2022] EWHC 1720 (Fam) in which we acted for the successful applicant ...

Sir James Munby, President of the Family Division, has issued a revised Practice Direction 12J of the Family Procedure Rules 2010 which came into force on 2 October 2017. The Practice Direction ...

In my last article I briefly mentioned the four main methods of separation in Islam. They are: Granting of Divorce by the Husband – Talaq Separation by way of consent between the parties – Khula ...

In this article Chloe Branton considers the current position regarding parental responsibility for married and unmarried fathers and outlines some recent and historic cases that have examined this ...