The prestigious LexisNexis Legal Awards 2025 are open for entries, and we are thrilled to announce two special categories ...

The SIHIS Pilot Scheme: read John Vater KC MCIArb’s compelling and detailed analysis ‘The Suspected Inflicted Head Injury Service: Mixed Messages and the Price of Justice’– online now in Family Law on ...

Annie Leach, a solicitor at Bindmans reviews cases concerning the summary return of children from Ukraine pursuant to the ...

Bloom v Bloom [2018] Lexis Citation 16 concerned the applicant wife’s application that judgments in the financial remedy proceedings, where the respondent husband had been found to have defrauded her ...

Perhaps it takes an unprecedented pandemic to clearly see the shape of justice for children in the UK. Long before Covid started to ravage the normality of all aspects of life the family justice ...

Resolution and HM Courts and Tribunal Service (HMCTS) have released information about current and future moves to central divorce centres. Divorce centres will usually be the only points of entry ...

'The law relating to financial orders is inherently unclear. It is not possible to discern from the statute what the law requires, although the courts and family lawyers administer the law with ...

In Solomon v Solomon [2013] EWCA Civ 1095 Ryder LJ gives a welcome reminder of the Gojkovic costs decision of Butler-Sloss LJ - namely, that the award of costs in family proceedings may be linked to ...

Sir Bob Geldof has written about his "deep rage for our Family Courts and the inadequate practitioners that work within it" in a forward for The Custody Minefield's report, Relocation and Leave to ...

Divorcing clients are sometimes surprised that one of the key documents their lawyer will ask them to complete is a budget of their projected living expenses. However, the principle of need is often a ...

The Judicial Appointments Commission (JAC) will launch a Recorder competition on 1 February 2017. The Lord Chancellor has asked the JAC to recommend the 100 best potential Recorders, without regard to ...

The Court of Appeal allowed a husband’s appeal against an order made by a Family Division judge that he should pay his wife a lump sum even though a Russian court had previously made a consent order ...