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*Partner copy* Alcohol test reports: common questions answered (AlphaBiolabs)
Marie Davies, Toxicology Reporting Manager at AlphaBiolabs, discusses alcohol test reports, including some of the most frequently asked questions about alcohol testing
12 May 2023 / Marie Davies
Unregulated experts & the need for clarity Premium Content
With the courts confirming there is no way to define an ‘expert’ in family proceedings, Sarah Keily stresses the need for caution until change is effected
05 May 2023 / Sarah Keily
Means-testing bars grandparents
Grandparents taking on the care of vulnerable children as special guardians could miss out on an extension to legal aid, the Law Society has warned.
03 May 2023
When children fall through the cracks Premium Content
A more robust system for sharing information is essential to ensure that chances to protect vulnerable children are not missed, says Lucy Logan Green
21 April 2023 / Lucy Logan Green
Financial orders for divorcing couples come under review
A review of financial remedy orders, which determine the division of finances at the end of marriage or civil partnership, has been announced by the Law Commission.
13 April 2023
NLJ this week: Child relocation cases & COVID
What impact has the COVID-19 pandemic had on international and internal child relocation? 
07 April 2023
Child relocation: the post-COVID landscape Premium Content
What impact has the pandemic had on international & internal child relocation? Sarah Hughes & Victoria Rylatt survey the key changes
07 April 2023 / Victoria Rylatt (formerly Brown) / Sarah Hughes
LNB NEWS: Law Commission review of financial remedies on divorce and dissolution
The Law Commission has announced a review to assess the options for reforming the law governing finances on divorce or dissolution of a civil partnership. 
05 April 2023
Surrogacy ‘revolution’ underway
Intended parents opting for surrogacy could potentially become the legal parents at birth, under an overhaul of surrogacy laws recommended by the Law Commission and Scottish Law Commission.
04 April 2023
Record delays in family cases
Private family law children cases took an average of 47 weeks to conclude in the final quarter of 2022—up five weeks on the same period in 2021 and an all-time high, according to the latest family court statistics.
04 April 2023
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Online safety against serious harm
Tech companies will be legally required to prevent material that encourages or assists serious self-harm appearing on their platforms, under Online Safety Act 2023 regulations due to come into force in the autumn
Law reform ahead
Commercial leasehold, the defence of insanity and ‘consent’ in the criminal law are among the next tranche of projects for the Law Commission
Bullying & harassment at the Bar
The Bar has a culture of ‘impunity’ and ‘collusive bystanding’ in which making a complaint is deemed career-ending due to a ‘cohort of untouchables’ at the top, Baroness Harriet Harman KC has found
The Sentencing Bill: Crime & punishment revisited
Lawyers have broadly welcomed plans to electronically tag up to 22,000 more offenders, scrap most prison terms below a year and make prisoners ‘earn’ early release
Changing faces
David Lammy, Ellie Reeves and Baroness Levitt have taken up office at the Ministry of Justice, following the cabinet reshuffle
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