The winners of the LexisNexis Legal Awards 2025 were announced in a glittering awards ceremony on Thursday 13 March at a ...

In this article Shiva Ancliffe KC and Caroline Croft set out the law in relation to the designation of care and supervision orders, highlighting the relevant statutory provisions and extracting the ...

Once viewed as an exception, shared care arrangements are now fast becoming the go-to solution for many courts in private child arrangements disputes. However, is this shift happening too rapidly?

Most will agree that the relationship between the 1980 and 1996 Hague Conventions is a match made in heaven. However the intersection between the 1970 Hague Evidence Convention and the 1980 Hague ...

This article explores the principles of care for children deprived of their liberty including the Nuffield Family Justice Observatory’s recent recommendations on the care provision for children who ...

In this article the author considers the law and practice surrounding modern cremation and the cremation aspects of the Law Commission’s recent consultation paper on Burial and Cremation. Cremation is ...

A look at some of the problems that can be encountered when enforcing financial remedy orders. The article is not a comprehensive overview. It briefly considers how to approach enforcement proceedings ...

The Budget of 30 October 2024 (‘the Budget’) was one of the most hotly anticipated budgets in almost two decades. Not only was it the first Budget from a new government, there had also been ...

In January 2024, Theis J declined to discharge a child arrangements order for contact between a surrogate mother and a child created for a same-sex couple. The judge also declined the application by ...

The issue as to how the beneficial ownership of land is determined is one which has frequently troubled the higher courts over very many years and continues to do so. As is well known the fact of ...

In the case of PMC (a child by his mother and litigation friend FLR) v A Local Health Board [2024] EWHC 2969 (KB) Nicklin J handed down a significant judgment on applications for anonymity and ...