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A raft of new amendments to the Domestic Abuse Bill will be presented, providing greater protections for victims and further clamping down on perpetrators.The proposals include making non-fatal...
Dame Rachel de Souza began her term as Children's Commissioner for England. She succeeds Anne Longfield in the role. On the Children's Commissioner's website, she says:"As I begin my tenure as...
Mehvish Chaudhry, Barrister, Harcourt ChambersJames Netto, Partner, The International Family Law GroupIn VB v TR [2020] EWHC 877 (Fam), Mostyn J was charged with dealing with an application for the...
The Children’s Commissioner has announced the launch of the Childhood Commission, a review of the future of childhood by the Children’s Commissioner’s Office. The Childhood Commission will identify...
Mothers’ details will be included on marriage certificates for the first time from May 2021.The Government is set to reform the law around the information to be contained within marriage...
The International Family Law Group LLP’s response to the FPRC's Consultation in relation to draft changes to the Family Procedure Rules arising from planned implementation of...
The desire to avoid conflict with an ex is the primary reason that separated parents do not get to see their children. That’s an eye-opening finding from a survey of 1,105 separated or...
Many couples, despite living together, never seek to legally formalise their living and financial arrangements. They mistakenly believe that the concept of a ‘common law’ husband and wife...
The Welsh Government has launched a consultation on the proposed amendments to the Adoption Agencies (Wales) Regulations 2005 and the Care Planning, Placement and Case Review (Wales) Regulations 2015....
The latest data from the Office of National Statistics shows that, in the year ending March 2020, around 1 in 7 (14.3%) disabled people aged 16 to 59 years experienced any form of domestic abuse in...