The President of the Family Division has set out public-facing Practice Guidance (January 2025) for cases transitioning from the National DOL List (“NDL”) to the … Read More ›
Tag: children
The Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill, which passed its second reading in the House of Commons on 8 January, would amend s.25 Children Act 1989 … Read More ›
An NHS Trust v Mother & Ors [2024] EWHC 2207 (Fam) is a case which throws two issues into stark relief. The first is the … Read More ›
In Re BC (Child in Care: Change of Forename and Surname) [2024] EWHC 1639 (Fam), Poole J approved a request by a 15 year old … Read More ›
Lieven J’s campaign against the decision of the Supreme Court in Cheshire West continues. In Re J: Local Authority consent to Deprivation of Liberty [2024] … Read More ›
Re J (Blood Transfusion: Older Child: Jehovah’s Witnesses) [2024] EWHC 1034 (Fam) is a characteristically thoughtful judgment from Cobb J, concerning whether authorisation should be … Read More ›
Y NHS Foundation Trust v AN & Anor [2024] EWHC 805 (Fam) concerned a 16 year old girl, AN, who had very recently been diagnosed with … Read More ›
Lieven J is proving herself the spiritual successor to Mostyn J as regards challenging Cheshire West. In order to make this assertion good, we need … Read More ›
The Nuffield Council on Bioethics has today, 18 September 2023, published the report of the review it was commissioned in December 2022 to carry out … Read More ›
[In an extremely helpful, but depressing, report published on 22 June 2023, the Nuffield Family Justice Observatory analysed applications received during the first two months … Read More ›