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Computers shouldn’t replace common sense in child protection procedures, says Richard Scorer
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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.
DAC Beachcroft strengthens Scottish real estate capabilitywith partner appointment
Womble Bond Dickinson appoints Brendan Ryan as partner in Public Law Projects team
Parklane Plowden Chambers welcomes five new barristers