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Timothy Scott QC and Jonathan Tod, Barristers, 29 Bedford Row Chambers. In most areas of family finance the jurisdictional basis upon which the English court is entitled to entertain an application is ...

The Legal Personality of the Year award honours an individual (not necessarily with a background or qualification in the law) ...

The Children's Commissioner has published her report on the involvement of children in the 2024 riots.

Just about every permutation of order in family proceedings has been considered in the Family Standard Orders project. However, family lawyers and litigants in person are given no suggested template ...

When the 1973 Matrimonial Causes Act was enacted Judges were required by statute to ensure that they exercised their powers to make financial provision on divorce that "...place[d] the parties [...] ...

On 14 January 2014 the President issued a draft Revised Bundles Practice Direction for discussion and comment ([2014] Fam Law 226). Following further amendments we now have the new Practice Direction.

See also, Revisiting child abduction: solving the problems in Nicolaou and Kayani, an exclusive article written by the Law Commission. The law relating to kidnapping, false imprisonment and child ...

Children and Families Consultation Group: The private law landscape is shifting. Legal aid for separated parents in dispute will all but disappear in April 2013. The Government proposes to remove key ...

In Barker v Confiànce Ltd & ors [2019] EWHC 1401 (Ch) (5 June 2019), Morgan J considered the extent to which a litigation friend and the child(ren) for who the litigation friend acted can be made ...

Family analysis: Clare Williams, associate at JMW Solicitors LLP, examines the limited scope for the variation of capital orders, and diverging judicial views on the jurisdiction of the court to make ...

In Walker v Innospec Limited and others [2017] UKSC 47 the Supreme Court ruled that individuals in a civil partnership or a same-sex marriage must benefit from the same pension rights as those in an ...