Child law

Will a new contact regime tame recalcitrant parents? asks Simon Blain

Child protection

Government seeking to reduce burden on statutory schemes

Re S (a child) (placement order: revocation) [2008] All ER (D) 48 (Oct)

Family lawyers cite financial disincentives for issuing child protection orders

Dorothea Gartland discusses the difficulties of obtaining parental responsibility orders prior to adoption

Re A (a child) (joint residence: parental responsibility) [2008] EWCA Civ 867, [2008] 3 FCR 107

Dorothea Gartland considers the impact of the Adoption and Children Act 2002 on placement orders

Harris v Perry [2008] EWCA Civ 907, [2008] All ER (D) 415 (Jul)

Haringey London Borough Council v MA [2008] EWHC 1722 (Fam)