Our articles are written by experts in their field and include barristers, solicitors, judges, mediators, academics and professionals from a range of related disciplines. Family Law provides a platform for debate for all the important topics, from divorce and care proceedings to transparency and access to justice. If you would like to contribute please email emma.reitano@lexisnexis.co.uk.

Spotlight

Children and Same Sex Families: A Legal Handbook

More info

Mental Capacity: Law and Practice

More info

Evidence in Family Proceedings

More info

View All

Write for Family Law

If you would like the chance to write for us get in touch.

Articles

3459

Go to page of 346

Find

Advanced

I am only going to talk about one thing this week. Sex. As well as getting your attention, I intend highlighting something which has certainly been mentioned in this column before - the unnecessary...

On Friday 4 December 2010, the EU Justice Ministers approved a draft EU Council Regulation about which country's laws should be applied on divorce and legal separation, the so-called applicable law...

When I was considering the case of L-W (Children) [2010] EWCA Civ 1253, I did not have the benefit of Coleridge J's speech to the ALC on 26 November. I agree wholeheartedly with him. Listening to the...

A senior judge warned us all at the end of last week that the ‘sacred cow' of children coming first undermines the family courts and judges and that being uncritical about this approach leaves us with...

Well, now the cuts in the current financial climate are beginning to bite and Legal aid begins to become a memory, winter is here and social care becomes thinner than Oliver Twist's winter...

Reliable reports indicate that Hong Kong's highest court, the Court of Final Appeal, has just directed that divorced couples must share their assets equally. This follows the global landmark decision...

The purpose of the Legal Aid and Advice Act 1948 was "to make legal aid and advice in England & Wales... more readily available for persons of small or moderate means". The proposed reforms of...

Court of Appeal non-committal on enforcing contact: Re L-W (Children) [2010] EWCA Civ 1253When I read this judgment given by Munby LJ a big part of me wanted to say (at the risk of sounding simplistic...

How do you carry out a search and find (Anton Piller) order when the documentation to be discovered and the purpose of the search, especially electronic information, is held not at the premises being...

Much of the press has picked up on a report published yesterday by the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) which has condemned organisational and systemic failures in the Children and Family Court...

Show

Results

Go to page of 346

News & Articles

Other Useful Links

Online Services

Looseleafs

Law Reports

Journals

Books and eBooks

Major Works

Webinars

Events

Write for Family Law

Trending articles

Family Law Awards 2026: Entries are now open!

Lord Justice Cobb appointed President of the Family Division

New family court allocation guidance to streamline handling of children cases

Articles