News
All the news items published on Family Law Week this year are listed below. You can browse our news archive using the folders on the left.
- New laws to protect victims added to Domestic Abuse Bill
News (01/03/2021) - Disabled people more likely to suffer domestic abuse than non-disabled
News (28/02/2021) - Domestic Abuse Bill to proceed to Lords report stage on 8 March
News (28/02/2021) - Reforms to laws around intimate image abuse proposed to better protect victims
News (26/02/2021)
Law Commission consults on proposals - Message from the President of the Family Division: The Financial Remedies Courts
Judgments (26/02/2021) - ADCS report highlights safeguarding pressures before and during pandemic
News (26/02/2021) - Domestic abuse in Wales and Covid-19
News (21/02/2021) - Family Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2021
News (19/02/2021) - Children in care homes: Education Committee to launch new inquiry
News (19/02/2021) - Unregulated accommodation banned for vulnerable children under 16
News (19/02/2021) - Launch of supervision order survey by National Family Justice Observatory
News (19/02/2021) - Civil legal aid bills consultation launched
News (14/02/2021) - Councils must give parents clear information during safeguarding investigations
News (14/02/2021) - Legal Services Board data demonstrate fluctuating demand for family law services during pandemic
News (14/02/2021) - 'Single parents more likely to experience problem debt and live in persistent poverty'
News (14/02/2021)
New report from Gingerbread - Family Division’s Transparency Review: Update
News (14/02/2021) - Changes to the Adoption and Children (Coronavirus) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2020
News (14/02/2021)
DfE launches consultation - Note all Financial Remedies Practitioners
News (08/02/2021) - Privy Council hears appeal concerning same-sex marriage
News (07/02/2021) - Civil Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2021
Judgments (07/02/2021) - Home Affairs Committee investigates domestic abuse during Covid-19 pandemic
News (05/02/2021)
New data show steep rise in cases - ‘Duty on local authorities to fund community-based services should be included in the Domestic Abuse Bill’
News (05/02/2021)
Joint call from Commissioners to the Government - New help for divorcing couples as they are urged to consider sharing their pensions
News (31/01/2021) - 'Private equity involvement in care placements needs reviewing'
News (31/01/2021)
Local Government Association expresses concern about profit and debt levels - Number of open CSA cases decreased to 71,700 in September 2020
News (29/01/2021) - Calls to NSPCC about children living in violent homes rise by over 50 per cent
News (29/01/2021) - Councils urged to learn from Ombudsman investigation into child abuse complaint
News (29/01/2021) - Civil legal aid application forms changed to reflect new eligibility criteria
News (29/01/2021) - Domestic Abuse Bill enters committee stage
News (29/01/2021) - Financial Remedy Court organogram
News (29/01/2021) - Damage to children’s mental health caused by Covid crisis demands major increase for children’s mental health services
News (29/01/2021)
Children's Commissioner publishes fourth annual report on the state of children’s mental health services in England - New public law cases received by Cafcass rose by nearly 5 per cent in December
News (24/01/2021) - New private law cases received by Cafcass in December rose 9 per cent on 2019
News (24/01/2021) - Special Restrictions on Adoptions from Abroad (Nigeria) Order 2021
News (22/01/2021) - Firms should check whether they need to register as doing tax advice work
News (22/01/2021) - Government publishes new strategy to protect children from sexual abuse
News (22/01/2021) - Independent Human Rights Act Review: Parliamentary Committee calls for evidence
News (22/01/2021) - Politicians must come up with ‘a big, bold plan’ to fix child poverty: Children’s Commissioner
News (22/01/2021) - Independent Human Rights Act Review issues call for evidence
Judgments (17/01/2021) - New rules for legal practice: guidance for legal professionals
News (17/01/2021) - Workplace support for victims of domestic abuse: review report
News (17/01/2021) - Domestic abuse victim not supported properly by Wandsworth council when she became homeless
News (15/01/2021) - Human Rights Committee to hear from those whose right to a family life has been undermined by long lockdown
News (15/01/2021) - Education Secretary launches review of children’s social care
News (15/01/2021) - Continuing application of the Choice of Court Convention and Child Support Convention for the United Kingdom
News (10/01/2021) - Lady Black retires from the Supreme Court
News (10/01/2021) - Amendments to Family Procedure Rules
News (10/01/2021) - Amendments to civil legal aid eligibility criteria
News (10/01/2021) - Cafcass publishes updated organisational guidance on working with children through Covid-19
News (10/01/2021) - Domestic Abuse Bill receives second reading in Lords
News (10/01/2021) - Message from the President of the Family Division: The Road Ahead 2021
News (10/01/2021)