The LexisNexis Family Law Awards 2025 are officially open for entries – and with them, a unique opportunity for businesses to ...

Updated guidance to assist judicial office holders in relation to the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been published ...

On 24 April 2025 the Children’s Commissioner issued a Statement on Ofcom’s new Children’s Safety Codes: ...

This article was originally published in the December issue of Family Law at [2014] Fam Law 1765 and has been made available free of charge. It has been updated by the authors since its original ...

On 14 January 2014 the President issued a draft Revised Bundles Practice Direction for discussion and comment ([2014] Fam Law 226). Following further amendments we now have the new Practice Direction.

Special guardianship orders (SGOs) were designed in part to provide a framework of permanency for 'children being cared for on a permanent basis by members of their wider birth family' (Adoption: A ...

Mr Justice McFarlane has been appointed to the Court of Appeal with effect from 28 July 2011, Downing Street announced today. The popular judge and author was called to the Bar (Gray's Inn) in 1977 ...

The Master of the Rolls and the President of the Family Division have issued new guidance on McKenzie Friends in light of the increase in litigants-in-person in all levels of the civil and family ...

In the cross-currents of the common law principles of disclosure and confidentiality two cases, over the past month, stand out: DB v The General Medical Council [2016] EWHC 2331 (QB), Soole J and X, Y ...

Disputes over spousal maintenance can often be the main bar to parties reaching a settlement on divorce. The wealthier party usually finds the thought of continuing to have to pay some of their ...

Minister thanks lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community for ‘selfless dedication’ to vulnerable children. The number of children adopted by lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender ( LGBT) ...

At first glance, it might appear from the reported case of Akhter v Khan [2018] EWFC 54 that we have now finally arrived at the stage where English civil law has recognised an Islamic marriage (Nikah) ...