Leading drug, alcohol and DNA testing laboratory, AlphaBiolabs, has made a £500 donation to Carers Trust Solihull as part of its Giving Back campaign.

BASW England is pleased to announce the launch of new guidance for child and family social workers supporting victim-survivors of domestic abuse. The guidance is aimed at social workers within the ...

Farming businesses are often a family affair that span generations; fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, may all have a share in the land and the business. These complex ownerships can pose issues in ...

The Law Society has warned that delayed legal aid payments from the Legal Services Commission (LSC) are hitting solicitors and their banks again. Law Society chief executive Desmond Hudson has written ...

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 ...

The first Court of Appeal (Civil Division) hearing to be live-streamed in full will start on Thursday 15 November as a public pilot for a new service designed to increase public access to the work of ...

*but didn’t ask because… if you were that interested in Chancery work you wouldn’t have become a family lawyer 1. A classic trope of the horror movie is the unexpected return from the dead of ...

The doubters as to the efficacy of IFLA family arbitration in the financial remedy context need look no further than the case of S v S (Financial Remedies: Arbitral Award) [2014] EWHC 7 (Fam), [2014] ...

Parliament will today play host to a high-level meeting on the impact of the Legal Services Commission's proposed cuts to family legal aid on vulnerable children. Chaired by Baroness Butler-Sloss and ...

Anna Yarde, Barrister, Harcourt Chambers: The landscape of private law children disputes is changing rapidly. Changes in legal aid have resulted in a significant increase in the number of litigants in ...

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 ...

This article considers the gender aspects of prenuptial and postnuptial agreements. It focuses on the practical realities of prenuptial agreements, in particular, the negotiating and bargaining ...