Family Routes is a longitudinal study intended to track the needs, experiences and outcomes of children leaving care on an ...

Barnaby, a barrister and independent funding adjudicator, seeks through this article to distil the process and common issues arising in the Merits Assessment stage of an application for public funding ...

The Family Law Awards return this autumn for what promises to be another exceptional evening of celebration, recognition and ...

Our authors are experts in their field and include barristers, solicitors, judges, mediators, academics experts from a range of related disciplines. The Drive Partnership has announced the launch of ...

Our authors are experts in their field and include barristers, solicitors, judges, mediators, academics experts from a range of related disciplines. The Drive Partnership has announced the launch of ...

The Drive Partnership has announced the launch of three co-designed specialist responses to domestic abuse led by a consortium of delivery providers to address systemic gaps in responses to domestic ...

Our authors are experts in their field and include barristers, solicitors, judges, mediators, academics experts from a range of related disciplines.

In Part 1, the authors analyse the recent High Court judgment in the case of KL v BA [2025] EWHC 102 (Fam), which addresses the legal implications of parental responsibility (PR) for non-biological ...

The interest of this article is that it brings together two topics of importance to family lawyers - mediation as an alternative to Court proceedings and the need for practitioners to recognise and ...

This article critiques the growing trend of “label litigation” in private law cases, where disputes over the terms attached to Child Arrangements Orders - such as “joint live with” or “shared care” - ...

On 26 February 2025, the President of the Family Division, Sir Andrew McFarlane, published new guidance for family judges on when, how, and why to write to children in family proceedings. This article ...

The Court of Appeal has considered the question of whether it is fair and appropriate for a Court of Protection Judge to visit the person who lacks mental capacity and about whom the Judge is being ...