AlphaBiolabs’ NIPP testing represents the gold standard in prenatal paternity testing, analysing up to 153 DNA markers for ...

Liza Gordon-Saker has been appointed to be a District Judge of the Principal Registry of the Family Division with effect from Monday 25 January 2010. Mrs Gordon-Saker, 50, heads Fenners Chambers ...

David Cameron has announced Conservative Party plans to reform Sure Start programme hinting services will be restricted to the less wealthy. They will be similar to Academy schools in that they will ...

According to Stuart Clark and Emma Chowdhury, of the International Family Law Group, the English Family Courts strongly encourage any financial order made upon divorce or civil partnership dissolution ...

The Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission has announced that Noel Shanahan has been appointed as Commissioner and Chief Executive to replace Stephen Geraghty. Mr Geraghty is leaving after six ...

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 ...

There are more than 85 unofficial Sharia courts operating in the UK, a new report by the rightwing think tank Civitas has revealed. The courts, which usually apply Sharia law in family or financial ...

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 ...

Can you give away an interest in land in the course of a discussion? In Ely v Robson [2016] EWCA Civ 774, Ms Robson argued that you could not: an oral agreement would not be compliant with s 2 (1) Law ...

The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child published its report about Britain's standards on improving children's rights. The Committee, which monitors the implementation of the Convention on the ...

The aim of this article is to provide practitioners with a practical guide on how to approach family businesses within financial remedy proceedings and what can be achieved with the aid of expert ...

The Legal Aid Agency (LAA) has set out a standard approach to help turn around your work more efficiently when submitting online and paper bills. The Financial Remedies Handbook is the first resort ...