Oral fluid (saliva) drug testing is classified as a ‘narrow-window’ (short-term) testing method, meaning it can be used to ...

Parents with difficulties and disabilities played a vital role in every stage of development, ensuring the film accurately reflects their experiences and addresses the issues they face. From shaping ...

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 ...

Section 18 of the Victims and Prisoners Act 2024 also known as Jade’s Law will place a mandatory duty on the Crown Court to make a Prohibited Steps Order (PSO) suspending the parental responsibility ...

The Court of Protection uses the Mental Capacity Act 2005 to determine a protected party’s (P’s) capacity to make decisions and where P lacks capacity to determine P’s best interests in that area of ...

This article examines the difficult and often emotive issue of disclosure of highly personal information about one party to other parties within public law proceedings under the Children Act 1989. The ...

Unaccompanied asylum seeking children arriving in the UK are in desperate need of the full range of social care and health services available from public authorities. Most asylum seekers who enter the ...

Two recent family court decisions explore whether the statutory threshold under the Children Act 1989 can be met when parental harm occurs before a child’s birth or after a parent’s death. In Re W (A ...

Mrs Justice Arbuthnot held that AZ, an 11 year old, lacked Gillick competence to decide the future of her pregnancy. Her parents were regarded as too unreliable to make a decision for AZ; it was, ...

In Wolverhampton City Council v JA & Ors [2017] EWFC 62, Keehan J dealt with a care case which involved allegations of sexual abuse of two young girls. They were aged 13 (X) and 12 (Y) at the time of ...