Family

From Monday 16 May 2022, all new hearings in the Central Family Court (CFC) (excluding hearings in the Financial Remedies Court) will be listed as attended hearings. HHJ Lynn Roberts (Designated Family Judge for the CFC) issued the guidance, which aims to increase the numbers of cases that can be listed and bring about more agreements and settlements

Ashley Hodgkinson, Sample Collections Manager at AlphaBiolabs, looks at drug testing methods and some of the most common ways that people try to cheat a drug test

In the first of two articles from the barricades, David Burrows reflects on the uneasy relationship between privacy, anonymity & transparency

Hudson v Hathway: Julia Petrenko & Ashpen Rajah discuss a surprising ruling on detrimental reliance

Casey Randall, Head of DNA at AlphaBiolabs, discusses the benefits of prenatal paternity testing for legal proceedings, including when counsel might instruct this test, and how it’s performed at the DNA laboratory

David Burrows on the law of family breakdown: where are we now & where are we going?

Casey Randall, Head of DNA at AlphaBiolabs, explains how complex relationship DNA testing works, how such tests can be used for legal purposes, and how to interpret the results

Is there any civil right to reply to an assertion of irretrievable breakdown? David Burrows investigates

Family lawyers have hailed the new era of fault-free divorce, which takes effect this week after decades of campaigning

In the second part of a feature on the new fault-free divorce laws, NLJ columnist and solicitor-advocate David Burrows asks: is there a right to challenge an assertion of irretrievable breakdown?