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The Supreme Court has ruled in favour of John Walker in his landmark legal battle to secure equal pension benefits for his husband, a decision which could end the financial penalisation of thousands...
Female Genital Mutilation: Law and Practice is a specialist title, written in close consultation with survivors of FGM and frontline practitioners from across the spectrum of disciplines. It provides...
The government has announced a public inquiry into the contaminated blood scandal, which killed at least 2,400 people during the 1970s and 1980s. During that period, thousands of NHS patients were...
The Legal Aid Agency (LAA) has set out a standard approach to help turn around your work more efficiently when submitting online and paper bills.The Financial Remedies Handbook is the first resort for...
There were 5,391 newly recorded cases of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) reported in England during 2016-17, according to the second publication of annual statistics from this data set.Female Genital...
The Law Society has published a devastating critique of LASPO (Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012), which slashed civil and family legal aid....
The government is to introduce new measures it believes will protect women and girls from crimes committed overseas as part of its Domestic Abuse Bill...
President of the Family Division, Sir James Munby, has offered guidance which clarifies what judges can say when speaking to Ofsted staff who conduct inspections of local authority children’s...
A new report by family charity Gingerbread, concludes that loopholes in the child maintenance service (CMS) is allowing non-resident parents to pay only part of what they should be.This, the Children...
London, Monday 26 June 2017The implications of the UK's departure from the EU in the family law context, from both domestic and the international perspectives cannot be underestimated. This...