Category: Latest News

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SMEs would bear the brunt of proposals to fund access to justice through client accounts – CILEX

10 March 2026

SRA pays out £9m to ‘most urgent’ PM Law transactions after receiving 250 applications to compensation fund

10 March 2026

Claire Waxman

Repeal of parental presumption ‘historic victory’, Victims Commissioner says

9 March 2026

CILEX calls for more opportunities to diversify access to the legal profession

9 March 2026

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Domestic abuse crisis ‘hiding in plain sight’ – Refuge

6 March 2026

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Government’s SEND consultation facing legal challenge

6 March 2026

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Mother fabricated abuse claims, court finds in Hague Convention application

6 March 2026

SRA formally censured for failures over SSB Group

5 March 2026

Kinship care

Government commits £126m to kinship care pilot across seven local authority areas

5 March 2026

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President of Family Division sets aside alienating behaviour findings and limits use of expert evidence

5 March 2026

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New guidance released on preparing court bundles for litigants in person in family proceedings

5 March 2026

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Risk of future domestic abuse not sufficient to justify removal, court finds

5 March 2026

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High Court weighs faith, medicine and a child’s best interests in life-sustaining treatment case

5 March 2026

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Domestic adoption order refused due to safeguarding and trafficking concerns

4 March 2026

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Law Society backs LSB’s EDI plans but warns of burden on small firms

4 March 2026

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Government launches consultation on children’s digital wellbeing

3 March 2026

Adrian Jaggard

Legal group AIIC passes 1,000 consultants as platform business continues to grow

3 March 2026

Richard Blakeway

LSB announces preferred candidate for OLC chair

3 March 2026

MyHMCTS Portal

Child arrangements and domestic abuse applications must be filed online in five family courts

2 March 2026

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Ward Hadaway strengthens team with 44 new appointments

27 February 2026

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Birketts hosts first CILEX Connect and Grow events ahead of national roll-out

27 February 2026

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New legal definition of ‘honour’ abuse introduced, along with widened CPS guidance

26 February 2026

Richard Port

Family lawyer questions effectiveness of domestic abuse legislation

26 February 2026

Record investment in legal tech and artificial intelligence solutions

26 February 2026

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UK legal services sector grew by 6.1% last year, with family law worth £3.6bn

26 February 2026

SRA client money consultation

Separating compliance roles ‘complex and impractical’ Law Society says in client money consultation response

26 February 2026

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Family Executive Team launches consultation on short notice application guidance

25 February 2026

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CILEX opens submissions at Mazur appeal

25 February 2026

J-Law

Referral scheme aims to put clients in touch with non-UK legal professionals

25 February 2026

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Valentine’s day sees huge spike in divorce searches

23 February 2026

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Court refuses application to return children to Türkiye after planned abduction

23 February 2026

A young woman looks distressed while looking at her phone

New 24-hour tech law ‘will protect women and girls from intimate image abuse’

20 February 2026

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Financial services firms ‘not asking right questions about abuse’

20 February 2026

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High Court rules section 83 requirements do not apply to step-parent adoption

20 February 2026

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Fertility patients win battle to save embryos after clinics failed to gain consent for storage

19 February 2026

PM Law

SRA confirms ‘potential fraud and missing client money’ at PM Law

19 February 2026