Effective 27 January 2025, the Family Courts in England and Wales have undergone a landmark shift towards greater transparency. This follows the successful pilot launched in 2023, which tested the feasibility of allowing media reporting while maintaining the privacy of ...

31.07.2025

If you are unable to spend time with your child or children, and if you cannot reach agreement or resolve the situation with the child’s other parent via negotiation, then it may be necessary to involve a solicitor to help ...

14.03.2023

Surrogacy is growing in popularity as a way to start and expand a family. If you are in the early stages of researching having a child via surrogacy it is important to understand how to obtain legal parenthood. It is ...

09.12.2022

We are delighted that Miles & Partners once again sits among top-ranking law firms in London in the 2023 Legal 500 rankings for UK Solicitors. The firm has firmly retained its high tier ranking for three of its core practice ...

30.09.2022

Case report: Cambra v Jones & Jones [2014] EWHC 2264 (Fam) An English mother of five children faced a potential prison sentence after two of her children were not returned to return to Spain to live with their father as ...

14.12.2014

M (A Child) (Wardship) Amanda Dench successfully defended proceedings issued by an Iranian father for the return of a child to the UAE. The family had lived together in Dubai where the parents’ marriage had broken down. The father refused ...

29.11.2014

This is a new Act of Parliament in force from 22 April 2014.  It makes several significant changes to the Children Act 1989 which is the law governing court cases about children.  This article refers to the changes in cases ...

17.04.2014