Section does not introduce fresh criteria for determining intentional homelessness.
Full story: Family Law Week
Banker 'hacked ex-wife’s emails' as they fought over listed home and Aston Martin
A banker hacked into his ex-wife’s email account during a multi-million pound divorce battle, a court heard.
Full story: Evening Standard
Full story: Evening Standard
New report claims Ofsted inspections harm children's services
A new report published today claims that Ofsted's approach to inspection is outdated.
Full story: Family Law
Full story: Family Law
Greater transparency needed in the Court of Protection, claims report
Researchers at the School of Law and Politics at Cardiff University have published a report which recommends an overhaul in the way that the Court of Protection currently works with the media in England and Wales.
Full story: Family Law
Full story: Family Law
Parents lose court battle over fitting a heart monitoring device in their seven-year-old daughter
Doctors say the youngster has a rare heart problem and might die if she suffers another cardiac arrest.
Full story: The Telegraph
Full story: The Telegraph
No "broad natural parent presumption" confirms Court of Appeal
Testamentary guardians succeed in appeal against child arrangements order.
Full story: Family Law Week
Full story: Family Law Week
‘DIY justice’ or vital reform – what do we know about legal aid?
Full Fact examines the claims and counter-claims about legal aid provision.
Full story: Family Law Week
Full story: Family Law Week
Top judge tells parents to be strict on teens
The country’s top family judge has urged parents to do more to ensure that fractious and rebellious teenagers do what they “ought” to be doing.
Full story: The Independent
Full story: The Independent
Access to Justice in the Family Court – FLBA Briefing Paper
The FLBA has prepared a briefing paper on issues surrounding access to justice in the Family Court, to explain to candidates in the forthcoming election how changes to civil legal aid under LASPO are causing injustice to many children and their families.
Full story: Family Law
Full story: Family Law
Deprivation of liberty: Commission eyes ‘simpler’ system to protect rights
Reforms will look to strike right balance by offering 'less cumbersome scheme' that retains effective safeguards.
Full story: Community Care
Full story: Community Care
Doncaster sees four-fold decrease in children missing from care
The number of looked-after children that go missing from care in Doncaster has fallen nearly four-fold over the past year following the introduction of a dedicated support worker.
Full story: Children & Young People Now
Full story: Children & Young People Now
Bishop 'hid funds in divorce case'
A bishop who used to be a banker has been criticised by a judge who concluded that he had hundreds of thousands of pounds in offshore accounts.
Full story: Yahoo News
Full story: Yahoo News
New guidance on expert witnesses from Legal Aid Agency
The Legal Aid Agency have updated their guidance on the remuneration of expert witnesses , following changes in September last year.
Full story: Family Law
Full story: Family Law
Consent order can be challenged by application to set aside or appeal
The President has declared that para 14.1 of PD30A, which provides that a consent order can be challenged only by an appeal, was made ultra vires.
Full story: Family Law Week
Full story: Family Law Week
Family lawyer struck off for misleading client
An associate solicitor formerly with London firm Kingsley Napley has been struck off after four findings of dishonesty.
Full story: Law Society Gazette
Full story: Law Society Gazette
Family lawyers slam failing new legal aid digital system
Jo Edwards, chair of family justice organisation Resolution, criticised the Legal Aid Agency’s controversial £35 million Client Cost and Management System as “nothing short of a national scandal” at the Resolution National Conference in Brighton today.
Full story: Resolution
Full story: Resolution
Resolution launches national support network for junior family practitioners
Family law organisation Resolution today unveils its national YRes network for family solicitors, legal executives, paralegals, barristers and other professionals at the start of their career.
Full story: Family Law
Full story: Family Law
BAAF responds to main parties’ election pledges for looked after children
Chief executive of the British Association for Adoption and Fostering, Caroline Selkirk, has responded to the key general election manifesto pledges for looked after children from the Labour, Conservative and Liberal Democrat parties.
Full story: Family Law Week
Full story: Family Law Week
HMCTS publishes Q & A document for divorce processing changes
HM Courts and Tribunal Service has confirmed its plans for the handling of divorce work within the Family Court.
Full story: Family Law Week
Full story: Family Law Week
Lack of representation ‘particularly unfair’ in emotive cases
A judge has stressed the importance of having lawyers in family court proceedings to prevent emotional self-represented litigants behaving in ways they might regret.
Full story: Law Society Gazette
Full story: Law Society Gazette
Care applications in March 2015
In March 2015, Cafcass received a total of 1,066 care applications. This figure represents a 16% increase compared to those received in March 2014.
Full story: Cafcass
Full story: Cafcass
Cafcass private law demand
In March 2015, Cafcass received a total of 3,249 new private law cases. This is a 10% decrease on March 2014 levels.
Full story: Cafcass
Full story: Cafcass
Divorcee who won £10million settlement but says ex-husband cheated her out of millions more wins right to appeal her case at Supreme Court
A divorcee who claims her ex-husband cheated her out of a multi-million-pound fortune has won the right to reopen their divorce battle in the Supreme Court.
Full story: Daily Mail
Full story: Daily Mail
Lawyers see 'uptick' in divorce claims by ex-spouses
A landmark case has lead to a rise in divorcees wanting to renegotiate old settlements.
Full story: The Telegraph
Full story: The Telegraph
Top female judge calls for no-blame divorces so one person does not need to be at fault in order for one to be granted
Divorce laws in England and Wales should remove the need for allegations of adultery and blame, Britain’s most senior female judge has said.
Full story: Daily Mail
Full story: Daily Mail
New Practice Directions for Court of Protection come into force
New Practice Directions, and amendments to the Practice Directions, supplementing the Court of Protection Rules 2007 have come into force this week (6 April).
Full story: Local Government Lawyer
Full story: Local Government Lawyer
Judge sets out approach to cases where risk of children travelling to ISIS countries
A judge has set out a number of core principles relevant to cases where it is proposed to make young people at risk of travelling to ISIS countries, and particularly Syria, wards of the High Court and remove their passports.
Full story: Local Government Lawyer
Full story: Local Government Lawyer
Family court gives guardianship of black child to white foster carer
Child’s French-speaking family wanted him to live with his great-aunt – but judge decides in favour of woman who has helped him thrive.
Full story: The Guardian
Full story: The Guardian
Women should not sign post-nups, tycoon's former wife warns
Wives should not give in to pressure and sign post-nup agreements, woman who was fraction of her husband's £38m fortune.
Full story: The Telegraph
Full story: The Telegraph
Widow of property investor Jack Dellal wins round of legal battle over estate
High court is told Ruanne Dellal inherited £15.4m but her husband, who died in 2012, must have given away some of his fortune without her knowledge.
Full story: The Guardian
Full story: The Guardian
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