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Mr Justice Coleridge has become the patron of the Family Holiday Association - his first engagement with the charity was to speak at a Parliamentary dinner held Tuesday, 16 June.In another challenging...
Research released today by child welfare charity Families Need Fathers shows that parents feel the family courts are not doing enough to help them play an active role in their child's lives after...
The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) is inviting views from key stakeholders on how it should regulate in the future to ensure clients obtain good quality legal services from solicitors and the...
As part of their Legal Aid at 60 campaign, the Legal Services Commission (LSC) is calling for practitioners to submit any interesting stories about people being helped by the legal aid system.The...
A woman has been awarded £220,000 in a ground-breaking divorce settlement after having been separated from her husband for 22 years. The couple had been married for 4 years but never sought a formal...
Families Need Fathers has announced the launch of Separated Families Matter, an online resource supported by The Parenting Fund, designed to help social care professionals working with children and...
Barnardo's launched a report yesterday outlining how it succeeds to help children in trouble with the law where the government fails.The report was launched at an event marking a rerun of Barnardo's...
The recession is having a severe impact on families' lives to the point that 10% of parents believe that concerns about money are putting them at greater risk of separation or divorce, a survey...
The Family Procedure Rule Committee has published details of its work between January and April 2009.January to March 2009The committee consulted on the draft Family Procedure Rules in November...
A couple who had a "splendid and romantic" wedding ceremony on a rooftop overlooking a sunlit sea in Cape Town, were not legally married a High Court judge has ruled.Gillian Hudson, 43, and a wealthy...