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.
- Government responds to inquiry into child sexual abuse in secure children’s homes
News (09/05/2021) - Experts and the Family Justice System: Widening the Pool
News (09/05/2021) - New suite of Judicial Review Practice Directions issued
News (09/05/2021) - New pilot Practice Direction 36W: communicating forced marriage and FGM protection orders to the police
News (09/05/2021) - Family Court (Composition and Distribution of Business) (Amendment) Rules 2021
News (09/05/2021) - Domestic Abuse Bill becomes law
News (09/05/2021) - Tatiana Akhmedova granted judgments in £453 million divorce case
News (25/04/2021) - Kent teen left to live in tent during Covid crisis
News (25/04/2021) - Legal aid: notice of extension to the 2018 Standard Civil Contract
News (25/04/2021) - Mrs Justice Lieven appointed Family Division Liaison Judge for the Midland Circuit
News (25/04/2021) - Home Affairs Committee launches inquiries into rape and violence against women and girls
News (25/04/2021) - Biggest ever consultation with children in England launched by the Children’s Commissioner
News (25/04/2021) - Protocol for London and South East on domestic abuse applications being made outside the applicant’s area
News (25/04/2021) - Amendments to standard public law orders: message from Mr Justice Mostyn
News (25/04/2021) - New private law cases received by Cafcass in March rose by more than a third
News (18/04/2021) - New public law cases received by Cafcass rose by more than 13 per cent in March
Judgments (18/04/2021) - Survey supports recommendations for a review of supervision orders in care proceedings
News (18/04/2021) - LAPG launches 2021 Legal Aid Census ‘to show true state of social justice sector’
News (18/04/2021) - BASW England releases new Domestic Abuse Guidance for social workers
News (18/04/2021) - Domestic Abuse Bill: Progress of the Bill
News (11/04/2021) - Funding available for councils to support more families to resolve parental conflict
News (11/04/2021) - Civil Partnership (Registration and Records) (Amendment) Regulations 2021
News (11/04/2021) - Registration of Marriages Regulations 2021
News (11/04/2021) - Marriage and Civil Partnership (Conversion of Civil Partnership and Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 2021
News (11/04/2021) - Court of Appeal issues guidance on domestic abuse hearings and findings of fact
News (11/04/2021) - New Victims’ Code provides for victims of sexual violence or domestic abuse
News (11/04/2021) - 56 per cent of separated families in Great Britain have a child maintenance arrangement
News (29/03/2021) - Mediation has increased since last year and now exceeds pre-COVID-19 levels
News (29/03/2021) - Care cases now taking 41 weeks to first disposal
News (29/03/2021) - New pilot Practice Direction 36V reflects the existence of the Family Mediation Voucher Scheme
News (26/03/2021) - £1 million voucher scheme to help families resolve disputes outside of court
News (26/03/2021) - Committee takes evidence on Government’s Independent Review of the Human Rights Act
News (26/03/2021) - BASW England raise further concerns over the conduct of the Review of Children’s Social Care
News (26/03/2021) - Cafcass publishes organisational guidance on working with children through Covid-19
News (26/03/2021) - Recovery message from the President of the Family Division
News (26/03/2021) - Judicial Review consultation launched
Judgments (21/03/2021) - Supreme Court allows mother’s appeal in 1980 Hague Convention / asylum case
News (21/03/2021) - New film to mark the launch of an agenda for change in Special Guardianship
News (21/03/2021) - Ombudsman issues guide for dealing with children’s statutory complaints
News (21/03/2021) - Home Affairs Committee announces inquiry into Violence Against Women and Girls
News (21/03/2021) - Children in care homes: Education Committee launches call for written evidence
News (21/03/2021) - Children’s Commissioner launches ‘Beveridge Report for children’
News (21/03/2021) - Almost all young women in the UK have been sexually harassed, YouGov poll finds
News (21/03/2021) - New public law cases received by Cafcass fell by 2 per cent in February
News (14/03/2021) - New private law cases received by Cafcass in February rose slightly on 2020
News (14/03/2021) - Adoption and Children (Coronavirus) (Amendment) Regulations 2021
News (14/03/2021) - CMA launches study of children’s social care provision
News (14/03/2021) - Violence Against Women and Girls Call for Evidence reopened
News (14/03/2021) - Supreme Court to hand down judgment in 1980 Hague Convention / asylum case
News (12/03/2021) - Intercountry adoption: exception requests
News (12/03/2021) - Human Rights Commissions questioned on enforcement of human rights across the UK
News (12/03/2021) - Review of the controlling or coercive behaviour offence published
News (07/03/2021) - No case for reform of the Human Rights Act, says Joint Committee on Human Rights
News (07/03/2021) - Dame Rachel de Souza begins her term as Children’s Commissioner for England
News (07/03/2021) - BASW UK responds to Government Independent Review of the Human Rights Act
News (07/03/2021) - President’s Public Law Working Group report published
News (07/03/2021) - 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)