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The UK’s Supreme Court has ruled in favour of Siobhan McLaughlin, an unmarried mother of four from County Antrim, gaining access to Widowed Parent’s Allowance following her partner’s death in 2014.The...
The Home Office has awarded £13m to projects which support vulnerable children, by ensuring they have positive adult role models in their lives.Eleven local authorities have been allocated a share of...
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has published annual statistics showing how the popularity of civil partnership formations has changed since the introduction of marriages for same-sex...
The Law Commission has announced that the Government has agreed to help improve financial orders enforcement following its report published in 2016. The Government has committed to bringing forward...
The Network on Family, Regulation and Society’s first annual public lecture by Professor Helen Rhoades, Commissioner, Australian Law Reform Commission, takes place on the evening of Friday 5 October...
The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has announced a new pilot scheme for practising legal professionals which will allow for them to get direct entrance to courts without the need to be searched. The scheme...
The Family Justice Council and the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health have produced guidance in relation to paediatricians being instructed as expert witnesses in proceedings in the family...
The Work and Pensions Committee has warned that single household payments of Universal Credit could put claimants living with domestic abuse at risk of harm as they enable perpetrators to take charge...
The solicitors' application of the online divorce pilot has been approved to go live.Berkshire-based niche divorce & family law firm, Tony Roe Solicitors, will be in the first cohort of four...
Sir Andrew McFarlane has been appointed President of the Family Division, following the retirement of Sir James Munby.Sir Andrew was appointed a recorder in 1995, a deputy High Court judge in 2000 and...