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

Family Rights Group is proud to launch ‘A film for parents with learning difficulties and disabilities: working with a child and family social worker.’ This much needed resource, created with and for ...

The Work and Pensions Committee Child Maintenance Service (CMS) inquiry was published today, following its launch in July 2016. The resulting report concluded that the ideal outcome for separated ...

Settling cases is rewarding for a family lawyer. Sometimes we need help in doing so, in particular the help of a lawyer/mediator adept at finding an imaginative solution in a challenging situation.

Susan Tilley, Solicitor and Mediator. I think this particular thing needed somebody a bit more on the ball a bit more used to dealing with factors that were financial rather than emotional because we ...

The Charity Commission, the independent regulator of charities in England and Wales, has opened a statutory inquiry into the charity Kids Company, which closed this month. The Commission’s inquiry ...

In Re G (Residence: Same Sex Partners) [2005] 2 FLR 957, the parties had cohabited in a same-sex relationship for 8 years, during which time the respondent gave birth to two children conceived by ...

2019 sees the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) enter its 50th year. In that time it has delivered over 10,000 judgments, which are binding on the countries concerned. In the judgments delivered ...

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 ...

Although, the couple cannot apply for a dissolution order before a year has elapsed from the date of the formation of the civil partnership, either could apply, within the year, for a separation order ...

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’ ...