Our articles are written by experts in their field and include barristers, solicitors, judges, mediators, academics and professionals from a range of related disciplines. Family Law provides a platform for debate for all the important topics, from divorce and care proceedings to transparency and access to justice. If you would like to contribute please email emma.reitano@lexisnexis.co.uk.
Spotlight
Children and Same Sex Families
Children and Same Sex Families
Children and Same Sex Families: A Legal Handbook
More info
Mental Capacity
Mental Capacity
Mental Capacity: Law and Practice
More info
Evidence in Family Proceedings
Evidence in Family Proceedings
Evidence in Family Proceedings
More info
View All
A day in the life Of...
Read on

Compensation for Maladministration

© Copyright LexisNexis 2025. All rights reserved.
Date:16 DEC 2005

David Burrows, Solicitor. In R (Kehoe) v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions [2005] UKHL 48, [2005] 2 FLR 1249, the House of Lords held that where child support maintenance is payable as a result of a calculation under Child Support Act 1991, s 11, a person with care to whom the maintenance is payable is not entitled to apply to the court to enforce payment of that maintenance. If the Child Support Agency fails, then the parents' only challenge, said the House of Lords, is by judicial review. This article looks at judicial review in this context and, alongside it, the question of financial redress for maladministration. See January [2006] Fam Law 44 for the full article.

Click here if you subscribe to the Family Law journal online.

Read the full article here.

Copyright © 2025 LexisNexis