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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...
In a High Court judgment handed down yesterday, Sir Nicholas Wall, President of the Family Division, underlined the independent status of the Children's Guardian.
The issue arose in a case where a...
The Family Law Awards were launched in May and since then Jordan Publishing has received lots of nominations for family law practitioners, firms and chambers.
Nominations can be submitted...
Non-resident parents should be required to pay child maintenance through direct deductions from their salaries or bank accounts, according to a report published yesterday by the Work and Pensions...
Mr Justice McFarlane has been appointed to the Court of Appeal with effect from 28 July 2011, Downing Street announced today.
The popular judge and author was called to the Bar (Gray's Inn) in 1977...