Oral fluid (saliva) drug testing is classified as a ‘narrow-window’ (short-term) testing method, meaning it can be used to ...

Family Rights Group is proud to launch ‘A film for parents with learning difficulties and disabilities: working with a child and family social worker.’ This much needed resource, created with and for ...

A teenage Jehovah's Witness who was crushed in a car accident has died after refusing a blood transfusion in hospital. The schoolboy, aged 15, was airlifted to hospital from the incident in Smethwick, ...

Sir James Munby, President of the Family Division, reiterates the message being given as he embarks upon his tour of every care centre in the country. He discusses the reforms currently being faced by ...

Lecturer in Law, University of Buckingham: The mention of 'incest' leads to a sense of revulsion, regardless of whether the context is non- consensual, or true consensual incest between adults. The ...

In my last View, published in September [2016] Fam Law 1102, I drew attention to the seemingly relentless rise in the number of new care cases. The fact is that we are approaching a crisis for which ...

The government plans to expand the number of courts specialising in domestic violence from 25 to more than 50 by April 2007. The existing courts have already had an impact on current prosecutions and ...

The Work and Pensions Committee Child Maintenance Service (CMS) inquiry was published today, following its launch in July 2016. The resulting report concluded that the ideal outcome for separated ...

The Law Commission 1 has observed that the lack of any overarching principle in s 25 of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 leaves the judge in a position of a bus driver with all the instructions on how ...

The case of Re C (A Child) [2016] EWHC 3171 (Fam) (case heading: London Borough of Tower Hamlets v M and F and Others), Pauffley J raises a number of issues over where the welfare of a child may be ...

The recent tragedy of Baby P highlights a problem which is beginning to appear regularly within the ongoing child protection debate. If the language of statute is framed only vaguely, the assistance ...