The LexisNexis Legal Awards 2024 are officially open for entries, offering a platform to celebrate the very best of the UK’s ...

A teenage Jehovah's Witness who was crushed in a car accident has died after refusing a blood transfusion in hospital. The schoolboy, aged 15, was airlifted to hospital from the incident in Smethwick, ...

The Court of Appeal allowed a husband’s appeal against an order made by a Family Division judge that he should pay his wife a lump sum even though a Russian court had previously made a consent order ...

Rochdale Borough Safeguarding Children Board has published a serious case review that highlights failings by multiple agencies and charities in relation to vulnerable young people who were abused by ...

Sir Terence Etherton was called to the Bar (Gray’s Inn) in 1974 and became a Queen’s Counsel in 1990. He was appointed a High Court judge on 11 January 2001 and assigned to the Chancery Division, ...

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 ...

In 2011 the Law Comission published its report Intestacy and Family Provisions Claims on Death, Law Com 331 (2011)) in which it recommended reform of the law on intestacy and family provision claims ...

Family procedural law is not as clear as it might be over when ‘a person who is not a party to the proceedings’ (a non-party) can be compelled to produce documents and other information into family ...

Over the years, the wills and succession questions I have been asked more often than any other concern stepchildren: Do they inherit on intestacy, where there’s no will? Where a will leaves assets to ...

Brexit threatens the equality and human rights protections women rely on under the Equality Act 2010 (EqA 2010), according to a review into the state of women’s rights in the UK conducted by the ...

In CS v ACS (Consent Order: Non-Disclosure: Correct Procedure) [2015] EWHC 1005 (Fam), [2016] 1 FLR 131 the President, Sir James Munby, ruled that paragraph 14.1 of Practice Direction 30A of the ...

Following a government announcement in February 2015, from 31 October the duty of front-line professionals to report suspected cases of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) will become mandatory The ...