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Court of Appeal's decision Offers Guidance on the approach to Domestic Abuse in child contact cases   The Court of Appeal issued a judgment last month after hearing four linked appeals involving child contact and allegations of domestic...

Senior family court Judge for the south-west HHJ Stephen Wildblood has commented on how the family courts are being filled up by private law cases that should not require court involvement    He noted examples of these types of cases which he has...

The London Legal Support Trust is an independent charity that raises funds for free legal services in London & the South East. Last year a record breaking 15,000 people took part and raised over £870,000! Due to Covid-19 and following government...

The law commission has commenced a consultation to consider provisional proposals to reform the law on where and how couples can marry. This follows the law commission’s comments that the current laws are outdated and unnecessarily restrictive. As...

In an unusual approach, a mother contesting a local authority care order was permitted to type her answers to written questions in ‘real time’ from the witness box which were read out loud to the Court.   Furthermore, the mother was...