The LexisNexis Family Law Awards 2025 are officially open for entries – and with them, a unique opportunity for businesses to ...

Updated guidance to assist judicial office holders in relation to the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been published ...

On 24 April 2025 the Children’s Commissioner issued a Statement on Ofcom’s new Children’s Safety Codes: ...

Family law is an arena for everyone. Every kind of person has the potential to frequent these courts hoping for justice. It is therefore common place for users who have sight-impairment, mobility ...

The President of the Family Division Sir James Munby has released Practice Guidance today relating to the duration of ex parte (without notice) orders. Concerns were raised by the Magistrates’ ...

Family analysis: Should a court allow a potential perpetrator of domestic abuse, when they are acting in person, to cross-examine their alleged victim? Does this run the risk of the proceedings ...

In X, Y and Z (Disclosure to the Security Service) [2016] EWHC 2400 (Fam), McDonald J considered briefly at the end of his judgment (paras [89] to [95]) the possibility of a third party seeking ...

Special guardianship orders (SGOs) were designed in part to provide a framework of permanency for 'children being cared for on a permanent basis by members of their wider birth family' (Adoption: A ...

Mr Justice McFarlane has been appointed to the Court of Appeal with effect from 28 July 2011, Downing Street announced today. The popular judge and author was called to the Bar (Gray's Inn) in 1977 ...

In the cross-currents of the common law principles of disclosure and confidentiality two cases, over the past month, stand out: DB v The General Medical Council [2016] EWHC 2331 (QB), Soole J and X, Y ...

Disputes over spousal maintenance can often be the main bar to parties reaching a settlement on divorce. The wealthier party usually finds the thought of continuing to have to pay some of their ...

While media outlets continue to focus on high profile cases involving child sexual abuse, a controversial development at the Goddard Inquiry has quietly taken place. A recent statement released by the ...