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A Nigerian woman living in London has been given permission to appeal to the House of Lords after the Court of Appeal upheld a Nigerian court order granting her a fraction of the amount of money she...
Families Need Fathers has appointed two new Regional Coordinators, Tony Upton and Emlyn Jones. The pair will be responsible for supporting volunteer development, services for members and fundraising...
Hugh Logue, Legal News Editor
The Attorney General is to consider appealing against the sentences given in the Baby Peter case, a spokesman has said.Baroness Scotland could refer the case to the...
The Local Government Ombudsman has found that the London Borough of Lambeth failed a young person who looked to the Council for support, advice and assistance when leaving its care.Lambeth Council has...
Kent County Council failed to assess and adequately meet the needs of a family with two children with learning difficulties, finds Local Government Ombudsman, Tony Redmond.Mr and Mrs Carter (not their...
Paediatrician David Southall has lost his High Court appeal to have the decision to strike him off the medical register for serious professional misconduct overturned.The General Medical Council ruled...
A number of childrens' charities are supporting the introduction this week of ContactPoint, the government database which is to contain the data of 11 million children in England.Up to 800 frontline...
The Department of Health has published the 2008 abortion statistics which show that the under-16 abortion rate was 4.2 and the under-18 rate was 18.9 per 1,000 women, both lower than in 2007.Overall,...
By Hugh Logue, Newswatch Editor
Haringey Council probably had sufficient evidence to justify taking Baby Peter into care days before he was killed, according to legal documents disclosed last...
TUES 19/05/2009 - The Family Law team have smashed their fundraising target of £2,000 by collecting over £3,100 in sponsorship for the London Legal Support Trust.The team beat their target on Monday...