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Family Courts will need to be more prepared to cope with litigants representing themselves following Government reforms to Legal Aid, MPs on the Justice Committee have warned in a new report published...
Mishcon de Reya, in partnership with the Legal Expenses Insurer ARAG plc, and Lansdown Insurance Brokers of Cheltenham, has today launched Protect Pre-Nup, an insurance product that provides cover for...
Complaints to the Local Government Ombudsmen increased over the last year and the upward trend is expected to continue, according to their latest annual report for 2010/11 published today.
The report...
The Government has today published its response to Professor Eileen Munro's recommendations to reform the child protection system, set out earlier this year.
The response outlines the Government's...
The Government has responded to the consultation on the future of child maintenance and has set out changes to make separated parents agree their own family-based arrangements for their children's...
By Hugh Logue, Newswatch Editor
The Immigration Advisory Service (IAS) has announced that it has gone into administration following the Government's decision to remove immigration from the scope of...
By Hugh Logue, Newswatch Editor
A High Court judgment handed down today has dismissed a claim for judicial review and found that Cafcass' actions in the wake of the massive increase in care cases...
The controversial Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill enters its first day of Committee Stage today, which will see Committee members hear evidence from a range of interested...
By Hugh Logue, Newswatch Editor
A new report from single parent charities Gingerbread and One Plus One argues that a legal presumption of shared care would focus on parental entitlement rather than...
Writing in The Times today, Children's Minister Tim Loughton has announced that Martin Narey will be appointed as the new Ministerial Adviser on Adoption.
The former head of the children's charity...