Domestic abuse charity Refuge has reported a significant rise in cases involving the misuse of wearable technology and ...

A new parliamentary inquiry has found that the majority of adopted young people believe adoption is poorly understood by ...

Teenagers with experience of foster, residential or kinship care are at substantially increased risk of serious mental health ...

Two Commons select committees have launched a joint inquiry into the Government’s newly announced Child Poverty Strategy, ...

The latest Office for National Statistics (ONS) data (11 December 2025, ONS website, article, Drug misuse in England and Wales: year ending March 2025) confirms that drug use remains widespread, with ...

Marcus Dearle, Senior Partner at Miles Preston and immediate past Chair of the IBA’s Family Law Committee, is one of the UK’s leading advisers on high conflict, high profile family law disputes.

Ashraf Osmani, 52, was sentenced to 15 weeks’ imprisonment, suspended for 12 months, after pleading guilty to two counts of carrying out conduct for the purpose of causing a child to enter into a ...

The government has announced a wide-ranging consultation on children’s use of mobile phones and social media, alongside immediate measures to strengthen the enforcement of mobile phone bans in schools ...

Children affected by domestic abuse are not being consistently recognised or supported as victims in their own right, despite clear statutory provisions to that effect, according to a new joint ...

This article analyses the Court of Appeal’s judgment of Re HMP on the application of the Open Justice Principle in the Family Justice System in light of the new rules on transparency and its wider ...

Disputes about family pets are often dismissed as trivial, yet for many separating couples they are among the most emotionally charged issues in a family dispute. Australia has recently taken a bold ...

On 3 June 2025, Mr Justice MacDonald handed down judgment in A Local Authority v X (Attendance of Experts) [2025] EWFC 137 in respect of a mother and father’s application pursuant to Family Procedure ...