The labours of the Private Law Working Group, set up by the President of the Family Division back in August 2013, have now come to fruition and on 22 April the new Practice Direction 12B - Child ...

Lucy Barnes CEO and Co-Founder 'Lawyers Who Care CIC' and Pupil Barrister East Anglian Chambers The impact of trauma on ability to recall and recount testimony has been recognised as a key issue for ...

The shortlist for the LexisNexis Legal Awards 2025 has been announced. The LexisNexis Legal Awards will be held at the Park ...

Leading drug, alcohol and DNA testing laboratory, AlphaBiolabs, has made a £500 donation to Blackburne House in Liverpool as part of its Giving Back campaign. For every testing instruction received ...

Despite disability being a Section 25 factor in its own right, there is a dearth of resources specifically addressing the same. Often rolled into earning capacity, disability in one or more parties to ...

A will is revoked by the testator’s marriage or civil partnership. The Law Commission has consulted twice on whether this rule should be retained in modern conditions. The author examines the ...

In July 2024 after three years of hearings and adjournments Mrs Justice Arbuthnot handed down her judgment in AA v ZZ a case which she described as unusual and perplexing. The Applicant wanted a child ...

Six months on from the implementation of changes to FPR rules surrounding NCDR, this article takes the opportunity to reflect holistically on: the aims of the changes; whether they have helped or ...

The Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service (Cafcass) is running a pilot scheme to bring an end to separated parents poisoning their child against the other parent. Parents who are ...

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 ...