The LexisNexis Legal Awards 2024 are officially open for entries, offering a platform to celebrate the very best of the UK’s legal talent. This year’s awards will feature four exciting new categories, ...

Nearly 600 barristers, solicitors, judges, academics and other family law practitioners gathered in central London last night for the prestigious annual Family Law Awards. During the eighth edition of ...

Those working in the Family Justice system frequently encounter clients who present as vulnerable. Sheena Cassidy Hope and Kelly Gerrard examine the issues that practitioners are likely to face when ...

Narcissism has increasingly been used as a term to describe anyone who demonstrates difficult or undesirable behaviour. In reality it is a very specific personality disorder which is capable of being ...

The Family Law Awards 2024 shortlist has been released, celebrating the exceptional talent and achievements within the family law community. This prestigious event will once again bring together the ...

This article starts by exploring mental health among the UK population at large as measured by global surveys. Thereafter it focusses on the mental health picture presented by separating families ...

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, ...

Julien Foster, Barrister, Goldsmith Chambers. A new President's Direction (PD) in relation to court bundles came into force on 2 October 2006. It replaces the existing President's Practice Direction ...

Last night's Panorama programme shown on BBC 1 highlighted the case of a couple whose three-month-old son was put on the Child Protection Register when neither parent could explain how the child broke ...

IS v The Director of Legal Aid Casework & Anor [2015] EWHC 1965 (Admin), represents a review by Collins J of the exceptional case funding (ECF) provisions of Legal Aid Sentencing and Punishment of ...

A report published today by a cross party group of MPs and peers, calls for urgent reforms to the youth justice system following an in-depth inquiry which found systemic failings and an inability to ...

According to the latest Freedom of Information request from the Ministry of Justice (MoJ), publicly funded family mediation continues to decline since changes to public funding in April 2013.