All Family and children articles
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Opinion
The family justice system is failing to protect those most at risk
National Audit Office's latest report delivers a sobering assessment of a system struggling to meet the needs of vulnerable children and families.
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News
Family firm overturns ombudsman’s £15,700 award
High Court judge reduces the costs awarded to the firm to ‘reflect the court’s disapproval’ of firm’s failure to file relevant evidence at the appropriate time.
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News
Judge's scepticism of mother not the fault of negligent solicitors
Findings of inconsistencies in a mother’s evidence could not be laid at the door of her former solicitors, Court of Appeal finds.
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News
Judge who sits on family cases failed to protect children from abusive partner
Deputy district judge cannot be named, despite the press arguing that anonymity could reduce trust in the justice system.
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News
Family justice delays double legal aid spend
Spending watchdog criticises lack of government data to understand why cases are taking so long.
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News
Efficient service? MPs to probe family court system
Ministry of Justice and Department for Education officials will be grilled on why families are waiting up to a year for their cases to be resolved.
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News
Family judge lambasts 'obfuscatory disclosure'
Court's approach to £1.2m financial remedy order ‘necessitated by the husband’s dishonesty’.
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News
Firm hire: Hall Brown Family Law appoints joint head of London office
Senior lawyer Priya Palanivel has spent much of her career working within a boutique family law firm environment.
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News
Memory lane
Rising number of practitioners, single civil court fears, the need for a family court and extradition and the Stonehouse case: a stroll down Gazette memory lane.
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Profile
My legal life: Mital Raithatha, Coram Children’s Legal Centre
Senior solicitor and head of education law, London.
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News
Family judge ‘wrong’ about overnight stays following rape finding
Order maintaining father's overnight contact 'tipped to the wrong side of the balancing scales', High Court finds.
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News
Father does not have Article 6 right to lay advocate
Application suggested a 'fundamental misunderstanding' of right to fair trial, judge rules.
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News
Judge slams lack of judicial diversity progress in family courts
Her Honour Judge Khatun Sapnara says there are plenty of black, Asian and minority ethnic lawyers with the requisite merit.
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News
Mother argues judge 'wrong' to allow overnight stays following rape findings
Fresh allegations are ‘plainly relevant to the child’s welfare in any risk assessment’, says counsel for mother.
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News
No-fault divorce: 'blame game' still rife, say family lawyers
New regime 'has led to more spouses littering financial statements with allegations of bad behaviour'.
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News
Vardags extends flexible working under new management
Ayesha Vardag's famed divorce boutique announces promotion of Manchester chief Emma Gill to managing partner.
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News
High Court allows abuse victim to 'tell her story'
Court ‘profoundly sympathetic’ to mother in landmark transparency case who felt ‘let down’ by the family justice system.