The Children's Commissioner has published her report on the involvement of children in the 2024 riots.

The Legal Personality of the Year award honours an individual (not necessarily with a background or qualification in the law) ...

Rachel Davenport, Co-founder and Director at AlphaBiolabs, discusses the role that Drug, Alcohol and DNA testing can play in ...

The shortlist for the LexisNexis Legal Awards 2025 has been announced. The LexisNexis Legal Awards will be held at the Park ...

The impact of trauma on ability to recall and recount testimony has been recognised as a key issue for many years. Initiatives such as The Advocates’ Gateway have made important strides in providing ...

Just about every permutation of order in family proceedings has been considered in the Family Standard Orders project. However, family lawyers and litigants in person are given no suggested template ...

In Barker v Confiànce Ltd & ors [2019] EWHC 1401 (Ch) (5 June 2019), Morgan J considered the extent to which a litigation friend and the child(ren) for who the litigation friend acted can be made ...

The case of Re L (Case Management: Wasted Costs) [2016] EWFC B8 – where HHJ Bellamy in the Family Court awarded ‘wasted costs’ against solicitors in care proceedings – is difficult to reconcile with ...

See also, Revisiting child abduction: solving the problems in Nicolaou and Kayani, an exclusive article written by the Law Commission. The law relating to kidnapping, false imprisonment and child ...