Rachel Davenport, Co-founder and Director at AlphaBiolabs, discusses the role that Drug, Alcohol and DNA testing can play in ...

The case of Re C (A Child) [2016] EWHC 3171 (Fam) (case heading: London Borough of Tower Hamlets v M and F and Others), Pauffley J raises a number of issues over where the welfare of a child may be ...

National law firm Mills & Reeve has appointed Sam Hall to its family team in Manchester. Sam, who joins the team as a solicitor, was previously at Yorkshire firm Gordons LLP. He has a range of ...

This article originally appeared in the January 2018 issue of Family Law. Find out more or request a free 1-week trial of Family Law journal. Please quote: 100482. Many psychologist expert witnesses, ...

Part IV of the Family Law Act 1996 (the 1996 Act) sets out the basic legislative framework for the protection of victims of Domestic Violence in England and Wales. With very limited exceptions all ...

The Court of Appeal has held that the court has power to order an early neutral evaluation (ENE) by a judge even where one or more parties do not consent to that course. There was no reason to imply ...

The recent Court of Appeal decision of Re P (A Child) [2018] EWCA Civ 720 (11 April 2018) concerned T (born we are told ‘in 2000’: ie she is 17 or over, see the Children Act 1989, s 31(3) below) and ...

The Family Justice Council is an interdisciplinary advisory body whose members are drawn from a cross-section of those who work, use or have an interest in the family justice system. They include ...

Jo Edwards is Head of Family at Forsters, winner of the Family Law Firm of the Year – London Award at the Family Law Awards 2017. I am a partner and Head of Family at Forsters. Day to day I run a busy ...

Full interview first published in FLBA's [2010] Family Affairs 49, summer edn. Extracts reproduced with kind permission. Sir Nicholas Wall became President of the Family Division earlier this year ...

Munby P granted criminal legal aid to the alleged contemnor in respect of committal proceedings within Hague Convention proceedings on 6 March 2014. In doing so he referred back to his earlier ...

Family Justice Reformed (second edition: June 2017) contains detailed commentary on the Single Family Court and the Children and Families Act 2014, Pts 1 and 2 (which deal with family justice), ...