Adoption UK welcomes confirmation of the Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund (ASGSF) which has provided specialist ...

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

the Children's Commissioner has released a statement about Ofcom's new safety codes: ...

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: "The Online Safety Act places a legal requirement on Ofcom to consult my Office about the ...

This article examines the difficult and often emotive issue of disclosure of highly personal information about one party to other parties within public law proceedings under the Children Act 1989. The ...

Marie Law, Head of Toxicology at AlphaBiolabs, discusses the many benefits of oral fluid drug testing for child welfare and protection matters. Drug testing plays a crucial role in safeguarding ...

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 ...

Family law is an arena for everyone. Every kind of person has the potential to frequent these courts hoping for justice. It is therefore common place for users who have sight-impairment, mobility ...

Mrs Justice Arbuthnot held that AZ, an 11 year old, lacked Gillick competence to decide the future of her pregnancy. Her parents were regarded as too unreliable to make a decision for AZ; it was, ...