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Kevin Gordon, Head of Family at 5 Pump Court ChambersMany people use the terms ‘bed-sharing’ and ‘co-sleeping’ to describe the same thing, but there are differences:...

Even Charles Dickens might be lost for words to describe the predicament of vulnerable children in state care, and their exploitation for profit, in the 2020s. In his Hard Times (1853) he outlined the...

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An ambitious blueprint to transform how adult rapes are prosecuted is being rolled out nationally by the CPS as the next stage of a commitment to drive up the number of cases taken to court and...

Joshua Viney, Barrister, 1 Hare Court‘Schedule 1 – out of date and out of touch’ considers the intentions behind Schedule 1 to the Children Act 1989 and whether the distinctions...

James Pirrie, Solicitor, mediator and arbitrator, Family Law in PartnershipCharlotte Bradley, Solicitor and mediator, Kingsley Napley Mostyn J’s judgment in James v Seymour provides...

Luke Nelson, Barrister, 3PB This article serves as a brief precis of the practical, procedural and legal issues that arise when third-party interests in land arise in financial remedy...

Mary Welstead, Visiting Professor in Family law University of BuckinghamIn February 2023, Mrs Justice Knowles granted an order for the return of a child, aged six, to Nigeria from the UK to...

Hilka Hollmann, Partner, Dawson Cornwell LLPSarah Cockburn, Cafcass Children's GuardianThe making of an adoption order changes a child's family law status and legal identity forever,1 and only in the...

Following a Freedom of Information request to 174 local authorities across England and Wales, and having received 119 responses, the NSPCC has issued a press release saying:"Children who have...

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