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A practitioner’s guide to DNA testing for paternity, by Charles Foster
The Child Maintenance and Other Payments Bill will increase child support troubles, predicts David Burrows
The controversial Child Support Agency (CSA) is to be replaced by C-MEC, a body with greatly enhanced powers to force non-resident parents to pay child maintenance.
The Human Rights Act 1998 did not give rise to a duty of care to the parent of a child on the part of a local authority when exercising, through social workers, its duty to protect children from abuse, the Court of Appeal has ruled.
Private fostering v CA 1989, s 20(1)
Legislating for Sarah's Law is unnecessary and will not make our children any safer, says Alisdair Gillespie
Appeal court judges have delivered a stinging rebuke of a series of administrative and judicial errors in the child custody case Hammerton v Hammerton, where the father was sent to prison for three months.
Property litigation practice strengthened by partner hire
International arbitration team specialist joins the team
Set creates new client and business development role amid growth
The Sentencing Act 2026 received royal assent last week, bringing into law the recommendations of David Gauke’s May 2025 Independent Sentencing Review