The LexisNexis Legal Awards 2025 shortlist has been released, celebrating the exceptional talent and achievements within the ...

The Children’s Commissioner has submitted written evidence to the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill Committee.

The #ValueOurLove campaign is calling on Rachel Reeves to step up and ensure kinship carers receive the support they need to ...

Nearly 600 barristers, solicitors, judges, academics and other family law practitioners will gather in central London tonight for the prestigious annual Family Law Awards. During the eighth annual ...

Settling cases is rewarding for a family lawyer. Sometimes we need help in doing so, in particular the help of a lawyer/mediator adept at finding an imaginative solution in a challenging situation.

It is not uncommon for people wishing to adopt a child to look beyond the shores of the UK to a foreign jurisdiction. The Adoption and Children Act 2002 sets out the English court's jurisdiction to ...

On 19 January 2019 the CJEU handed down its judgment in Case C-386/17, between Romania and Italy, which can be found here. David Hodson OBE, a co-founder and partner at The International Family Law ...

There are more than 85 unofficial Sharia courts operating in the UK, a new report by the rightwing think tank Civitas has revealed. The courts, which usually apply Sharia law in family or financial ...

Timothy Scott QC and Jonathan Tod, Barristers, 29 Bedford Row Chambers. In most areas of family finance the jurisdictional basis upon which the English court is entitled to entertain an application is ...

In Walker v Innospec Limited and others [2017] UKSC 47 the Supreme Court ruled that individuals in a civil partnership or a same-sex marriage must benefit from the same pension rights as those in an ...

The research report following the Family Resolution Pilot Project (FRPP )was published in March 2006. The FRPP ran between September 2004 and August 2005 in Brighton, Inner London and Sunderland. It ...

In the Blue ‘equalisation of income in retirement’ Corner we find Coleridge J in RP v RP [2006] EWHC 3409 (Fam), [2007] 1 FLR 2105 and David Salter (sitting as a Deputy High Court Judge) in B v B ...