Overview The appeal concerned D, a seven-year-old child who had remained living with her father and attending her existing school after her parents separated. The mother applied for D to move approximately 50 miles away to

Vivien Croly, instructed by Abigail Whelan of TLT LLP, successfully  represented the Applicant Husband at a final hearing for financial remedy in the case of H v W [2024] EWFC 480 (B). Background and Issues  Both

Garrido J has granted permission for the media to publish information about private law children proceedings, in which a family court judge had made findings that a father, serving in the armed forces, had used ‘extreme emotional and psychological abuse

Jody Atkinson appeared for the successful party before the Upper Tribunal in JP v SSWP & LH (CSM) [2025] UKUT 162.

A case concerning whether a Local Authority can consent to the confinement of a child in its care, such that there is no requirement for a deprivation of liberty order from the court. Yesterday, the Court

The Court of Appeal has handed down judgment in Re E (Section 37 Direction) [2025] EWCA Civ 470, which clarifies the scope of the court’s power under section 37(1) Children Act 1989 to direct a local

The Court of Appeal have handed down judgment in the case of Re M (A Child: Intermediaries) [2025] EWCA Civ 440, which clarifies that the test for the instruction of intermediaries in family proceedings is a

Judi Evans, leading Olivia Pike, represented the local authority in the recent case of A Local Authority v T & Ors [2025] EWHC 334 (Fam), before Mrs Justice Lieven.

Lucy Reed KC acted for a grandmother in care proceedings where the local authority had improperly pursued findings of historic sexual abuse against both grandparents without proper analysis of the evidence or assessment of the risks

In the recent case of Child A and B [2024] EWFC 284 (B) (11 October 2024), in which Zoë Saunders, instructed by Alex Wilson of HCR Legal LLP, represented the Father. HHJ Scannell gave guidance with a

Sophie Smith-Holland was instructed by Sophie Webb of RWK Goodman to represent the mother in an application by a Local Authority for a Deprivation of Liberty Order (“DoLs order”) in respect of a child, J, heard

James Adams represented the child, whose parents had each been found to have perpetrated serious domestic abuse against the other, at a six-day final hearing. Recorder ordered that the child have no direct contact with his