Women’s Aid has responded to the Ministry of Justice’s latest package of criminal justice reforms and funding commitments, ...

The Crown Prosecution Service has highlighted the growing complexity of violence against women and girls (VAWG) cases, ...

Resolution’s Finance, Pensions and Tax Committee has analysed the Autumn Budget delivered on 26 November and highlighted ...

The Children’s Commissioner for England has urged peers to strengthen the Crime and Policing Bill to better protect children ...

The Bar Council has urged the government to abandon proposals that would restrict the use of jury trials, warning that such changes risk undermining public confidence in the criminal justice system.

The NSPCC has warned of a growing crisis in online blackmail affecting children and young people, after new research revealed ...

Two leading adoption organisations have issued urgent calls for a full, cross-government review of support for adopted ...

In this article we examine the intersection of the UK’s family visa rules with the family law issues and concerns that may arise when families are separated for immigration reasons. We discuss the ...

In this article, Imogen Watkins, Josephine Moreton and Ciara Coleman, barristers at specialist family law set 4PB, discuss the complex questions raised by the growth of digital tracking devices for ...

This article explores the need for reform in how children in care within England and Wales are placed with family overseas. Despite kinship care gaining prominence domestically children placed with ...

Family judges decide facts on the balance of probabilities: either it happened or it did not. There is no third box labelled “might have”. In cases of paediatric gonorrhoea, however, courts have at ...

An analysis of recent cases involving abortion and infanticide reveal the antiquated approach on which the current laws are based. Women today remain at risk of ‘witch hunts’. Police guidelines allow ...