An article covering the recent rollout of Pathfinder from a practitioner in Birmingham. This article initially focusses on ...

The Family Law Awards return this autumn for what promises to be another exceptional evening of celebration, recognition and ...

Family Routes is a longitudinal study intended to track the needs, experiences and outcomes of children leaving care on an ...

The Appeal Court’s detailed analysis of the law on revocation of adoption orders reveals a serious divide between those judgments which accept their sacrosanctity and those which have used the ...

Barnaby, a barrister and independent funding adjudicator, seeks through this article to distil the process and common issues arising in the Merits Assessment stage of an application for public funding ...

A guide through the evolution of approach to post adoption contact in the last 9 months, looking at the guidance from the PLWG’s comprehensive recommendations and cases law to see how the courts have ...

The Judgment of Mrs Justice Theis DBE in the case of A v Adopt London North & Ors (‘ A v Adopt ’) spotlights the shortcomings of the Local Authority in understanding its statutory obligations in ...

The interest of this article is that it brings together two topics of importance to family lawyers - mediation as an alternative to Court proceedings and the need for practitioners to recognise and ...

In Part 1, the authors analyse the recent High Court judgment in the case of KL v BA [2025] EWHC 102 (Fam), which addresses the legal implications of parental responsibility (PR) for non-biological ...

This article critiques the growing trend of “label litigation” in private law cases, where disputes over the terms attached to Child Arrangements Orders - such as “joint live with” or “shared care” - ...

Our authors are experts in their field and include barristers, solicitors, judges, mediators, academics experts from a range of related disciplines. The Drive Partnership has announced the launch of ...

Assisted reproduction has been around for over 45 years but the law in this area is still very much developing. This article will explore under what circumstances individuals creating a child through ...