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Mary Welstead, Visiting Professor in Family law University Mrs Justice Arbuthnot held that AZ, an 11 year old, lacked Gillick competence to decide the future of her pregnancy. Her parents...

Tom Doyle, Park Square BarristersMost family lawyers will undoubtedly now be aware of the new domestic abuse practice policy published by the Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service...

Reagan Persaud, Spire BarristersFamily 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...

Simon Johnson, Pump Court ChambersThis article examines the difficult and often emotive issue of disclosure of highly personal information about one party to other parties within public law...

Frances Harris, Harcourt ChambersHelen Little, Harcourt ChambersReflecting on the recent Family Justice Council guidelines on Neurodiversity in the Family Justice System for Practitioners, this...

Helen Smith, Irwin MitchellBronte Cook, Irwin MitchellThe Court of Protection uses the Mental Capacity Act 2005 to determine a protected party’s (P’s) capacity to make decisions, and, where P lacks...

Avaia Williams, Parklane PlowdenTwo recent family court decisions explore whether the statutory threshold under the Children Act 1989 can be met when parental harm occurs before a child’s birth or...

Amanda Jane Newby, Assistant Professor, Solicitor non-practicing, University of Northumbria, NewcastleSection 18 of the Victims and Prisoners Act 2024, also known as Jade’s Law, will place a...

Brett Davies, Spire ChambersUnaccompanied asylum seeking children arriving in the UK are in desperate need of the full range of social care and health services available from public authorities. ...

John Haskey FAcSS AKC, University of Oxford, Department of Social Policy and InterventionThis article assesses some recently published statistics for 2022 on joint and sole notifications of...

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