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Figures obtained by the BBC show that in the last financial year Police arrested 510 people when they deemed a child might be at risk having been left alone….

There have been years of under investment and empty pledges supporting the view that Mental Health Services are the Cinderella Service of the NHS. Budgets for Mental Health Services fell…

If you are being considered as a Special Guardian for a child a Local Authority will need to complete a Special Guardianship Order Assessment (SGOA) of you. SGOA are often…

What is the age of consent? And what are we advising teenagers? Most people would answer “16 for sexual intercourse.” Is this right? What about two…

Today the Supreme Court announced that for the last 30 years the Courts have been interpreting the law on ‘joint enterprise’ wrongly. The Supreme Court has…

The Duchess of Cambridge has given the royal seal of approval for the UK’s first Child Mental Health week, taking place between 8th – 14th February 2016….

Who cares? Sir James Munby does it seems. He is President of the High Court family division, who described the recent case involving a 5 year old boy who…

A lease is, first of all, a contract, conferring rights on landlord and tenant in exchange for obligations. However, statute does still intrude on the landlord and tenant relationship,…

As news broke this morning of the engagement of media mogul Rupert Murdoch to actress-model Jerry Hall – you can’t help but wonder what their pre-nuptial agreement could look…

All of us have made bad decisions at one time or other, but when you’re facing a drink driving conviction you can bitterly regret choosing to get behind the…