While a single test may confirm either historical or recent use, depending on the type of test taken, it offers only a limited view of behaviour. By contrast, repeat testing enables the court to ...

Under the proposed legislation, courts will be expected to suspend most custodial sentences of under 12 months, a measure ...

The government has announced plans to repeal the presumption of parental involvement from the Children Act 1989, marking a ...

The number of children missing more than half of school hit a record high this spring, new Department for Education figures reveal. According to analysis by the Centre for Social Justice (CSJ), ...

The Children’s Commissioner for England has called on the government to strengthen the Crime and Policing Bill to ensure children are properly protected from criminal exploitation.

In December 2024, a hybrid audience of some 100 invitees gathered to hear the 17th annual Family Justice Council debate.

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The issue of single parent families has attracted the attention of headline writers for more than a generation. But in the reporting of data relating to them, much of it centres on the two million ...

Hannah Rought-Brooks considers the legal framework, post Brexit, for placing children outside the jurisdiction in the EU during or at the conclusion of care proceedings. The Hague Convention now ...

As previously mentioned if the husband refuses to give his wife Islamic Talaq the wife would effectively be stuck in her marriage. However Islamic jurisprudence provides for the wife in enabling ...

Subscribers can log in here. Find out more Talaq is the unilateral right of the man to divorce his wife. He can do this either verbally or in writing. That much is common knowledge. What isn’t however ...

Re M (A Child – Private Law Children Proceedings – Case Management – Intimate Images) (2022) EWHC 986 (Fam). This article summarises and discusses the useful guidance case in relation to the admission ...