The Legal Personality of the Year award honours an individual (not necessarily with a background or qualification in the law) ...

The Children's Commissioner has published her report on the involvement of children in the 2024 riots.

Rachel Davenport, Co-founder and Director at AlphaBiolabs, discusses the role that Drug, Alcohol and DNA testing can play in ...

Following Mrs Justice Black elevation to the Court of Appeal, Peter Jackson QC has been appointed as a High Court Judge with effect from 1 October 2010. Peter, 54, is a member of 4 Paper Buildings and ...

Susan Tilley, Solicitor and Mediator. Do men and women experience mediation in different ways and emerge from the process with different outcomes by virtue of their gender difference? Does the gender ...

The Department for Education has published a list of indicators to help local authorities understand the broad range of factors contributing to child poverty locally. The Child Poverty Act 2010 ...

It is well established that the UK is experiencing a rapidly growing and aging population, with an estimated 12 million people over the age of 65. These people are more likely to suffer from multiple ...

This article originally appeared in the January 2018 issue of Family Law. Find out more or request a free 1-week trial of Family Law journal. Please quote: 100482. Many psychologist expert witnesses, ...

Given the nebulous nature of surrogacy law in the UK and the decision in Briody v St Helen's and Knowsley Area Health Authority [2001] EWCA Civ 1010, [2001] 2 FLR 1094, with its confusing obiter dicta ...

In a recent speech the senior family judge Sir James Munby, informed an audience of colleagues that cohabitation reform was ‘desperately needed’. He lamented the courts’ inability to redistribute the ...

Victims of Domestic Violence will receive extra help and support from 18 new Specialist Domestic Violence Courts, the Government has announced. The new courts will be located in Eastern England, East ...