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The modern adoption – Should I see my biological family after I am adopted?
In recent years, the adoption model has undergone significant changes, moving away from the secrecy that once surrounded it. Comprehensive guidance has emerged, emphasising the importance of face-to-face contact between adopted children and their birth families. Adoption law specialist Zahra ...
Read more19.05.2025
Responding to allegations of alienating behaviour: clarity at last
In December 2024, the Family Justice Council (FJC) published long-awaited guidance on how the courts should respond to a child’s unexplained reluctance, resistance or refusal to spend time with a parent, and allegations of alienating behaviour—a topic that has, for ...
Read more19.05.2025
Can a convicted sex offender exercise parental responsibility?
In short, yes. A Trainee Solicitor, in the family team Sashina Thapa explains the current law and proposals for reform. A person convicted of a serious sexual offence against a child can still exercise parental responsibility As the law stands, ...
Read more03.12.2024
Separate care arrangements for siblings
Lorraine Green acted for two children, aged 16 and 4, when the local authority applied for a care order for the older child and a supervision order for the younger one in 2020. The older child was a girl who ...
Read more22.02.2023
Supporting a teenager through local authority care proceedings
Gemma Hodder supported a teenage girl over two years while the local authority pursued care proceedings for our client and a younger child. The young person had been living with her older sister, since her mother had died and her ...
Read more01.03.2022
Brothers kept together with support under Care Order
Case report: Confidential children’s care proceedings. Lorraine Green represented two brothers in relation to care proceedings brought by the local authority, following concerns about their parent’s capacity to protect them in light of drug and alcohol misuse, domestic abuse and ...
Read more14.09.2021
Care order application dismissed after threshold not crossed in alleged non-accidental injury case
Case report: [2021] EWFC B36. A local authority’s application for a care order in respect of two children, issued after the discovery of an alleged non-accidental injury following their sibling’s death, was dismissed and the family was applauded for their ...
Read more11.08.2021
Do care proceedings allow enough time for parents with a disability to develop parenting skills?
Case report: Confidential. Kate Hammond recently represented children in care proceedings after the local authority raised concerns about their parents, both of whom have learning disabilities. This case has potentially important implications for the way parents with learning disabilities are ...
Read more01.07.2021
Child maintenance responsibilities enforced in China with a Schedule 1 application
Case report: Confidential Some parents will do anything to try and avoid paying their share of child maintenance, even moving to the other side of the world. But this does not mean that they are beyond the reach of English ...
Read more24.08.2020