Three times as many solicitors sought help with their wellbeing last year than three years ago and increasing numbers of them are women, according to a new report. The Solicitors’ Charity’s Big Report 2025–2026 highlights
The journalists who overturned a ban on naming judges in the case of 10-year-old Sara Sharif have won this year’s Press Award for Campaign of the Year. Hannah Summers and Louise Tickle were praised by
A care order has been overturned after the Court of Appeal found a recorder had over-estimated the benefit of parental bonds and had made an order with “no workable plan” for a child’s future. Allowing
Women and girls will be better protected against violence and abuse thanks to a new international coalition. The International Coalition to End Violence against Women and Girls brings together eight countries that will work together
A family law solicitor who used a private detective to find a litigant’s address and then passed it to his client has been fined £17,500 by the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal and ordered to pay costs
A judge has taken the unusual step of releasing the name and picture of a child, and of the father who abducted him, after the father was mistakenly freed from prison. Judge Hayden said he
The Court of Appeal has removed a child from his adoptive parents because they hid facts including that the mother was in a new relationship with a violent criminal accused of child sex offending. In
The High Court has ruled that a child born to a foreign surrogate mother can be added as a beneficiary of family trusts, in a case that has highlighted the challenges modern parenthood poses to
Analysis from the Nuffield Family Justice Observatory has revealed a steep rise in private law applications, with current levels last seen in 2020. But Nuffield FJO researcher Dr Caitlin Shaughnessy, reporting on the latest data
A Russian oligarch can’t continue to block a court battle that could result in one of the biggest divorce settlements in history, the Family Court has ruled. Vladimir Potanin had sought to delay ex-wife Natalia