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The Government has confirmed, in its response to a report by the House of Commons Education Committee, that it will take measures against...

Anne Longfield CBE, Chair of the Commission on Young Lives, has published her year-long Commission's final report, Hidden in Plain Sight:...

A family law group that successfully campaigned for no-fault divorce has criticised the government for refusing to reform family law to...

Resolution, the family justice campaign body, has slammed the Government’s decision to reject a recommendation to reform cohabitation law...

Sufficient resources' will be necessary if the government wants to bring the Crown court backlog down to 53,000 by March 2025, the...

The Children's Commissioner has responded to the expressed concerns of care leavers by publishing a practical guidefor them. It lists,...

As at 31 March 2022 there were 404,310 children in need in England. This is the highest number since 2018 and is up 4.1 per cent from...

New rules that will make it harder to complain about solicitors will be in place from April 2023, the legal ombudsman has announced. ...

It will take at least 120 years before the judiciary is fully representative of society if progress continues at the current pace,...

Family lawyers could be required to submit all financial remedy applications through HM Courts & Tribunals Service’s digital portal in...

A group of cross-party MPs is demanding reforms to laws which, they say, leave cohabiting couples with 'inferior' protections to those...

Which?, the consumer organisation, says that of 948 Which? members surveyed by it in May who had divorced since the law changed, 71 per...

The Government has published proposals to change the rules that apply to transfers of assets between spouses and civil partners who are...

From 21 July 2022 victims of domestic abuse can be spared from being cross-examined by their alleged attackers in family and civil courts...

A House of Commons debate on 'Reforming the Child Maintenance Service' was held in Westminster Hall on 19 May 2022. The debate was opened...

There were 219,850 marriages in total in England and Wales in 2019, a decrease of 6.4 per cent from 2018. The figures have been released...

The president of the family division has called for fewer fact-finding hearings – revealing that judges and magistrates have been issued...

From 6 April 2022 England and Wales has a new divorce law, so-called no-fault. It is the most significant divorce law change since 1969....

Describe some of the changes to the divorce system Explain how the courts treat divorcing couples Identify the impact behaviour has on...

Calls are growing for HM Courts & Tribunals Service to slash the £593 divorce fee given the process will be online and quicker under...