The LexisNexis Legal Awards 2025 are officially open for entries, offering a platform to celebrate the very best of the UK’s ...

The Family Law Awards 2024 shortlist has been released, celebrating the exceptional talent and achievements within the family law community. This prestigious event will once again bring together the ...

This article was written in support of National Pro Bono Week, running from 2–6 November 2015. National Pro Bono Week is a nationwide campaign to celebrate the range and impact of voluntary free legal ...

Those working in the Family Justice system frequently encounter clients who present as vulnerable. Sheena Cassidy Hope and Kelly Gerrard examine the issues that practitioners are likely to face when ...

The Ministry of Justice has today published Mediation Information and Assessment Meetings (MIAMs) and mediation in private family law disputes: Quantitative Findings. The first report of this research ...

The Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service (Cafcass) is running a pilot scheme to bring an end to separated parents poisoning their child against the other parent. Parents who are ...

Can you give away an interest in land in the course of a discussion? In Ely v Robson [2016] EWCA Civ 774, Ms Robson argued that you could not: an oral agreement would not be compliant with s 2 (1) Law ...

The labours of the Private Law Working Group, set up by the President of the Family Division back in August 2013, have now come to fruition and on 22 April the new Practice Direction 12B - Child ...

Service is an often ignored but critical subject for international family practitioners in every case. If service rules are not followed carefully, you run the risk of your client ending up divorced ...

Part III of the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984 (MFPA) was enacted just over 40 years ago. The legislation empowered English Courts to provide financial relief to parties who had a ...

This article considers the English law concept of non-marriage taking as its starting point the “postscript” at [88]–[92] of Mostyn J’s judgment in Tousi v Gaydukova [2023] EWHC 404 (Fam). In that ...