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How does the Court of Protection balance safety against autonomy when protecting vulnerable adults from dangerous behaviour and harmful influences? This issue arose in the recent case of MN v A Cit...

We know that the landscape of the family court and family practice is changing. There are already very significant delays in the administration of family justice through the court system; in part beca...

Family practice is changing now more rapidly than it ever has done before. Just imagine before March 2020, where the vast majority of court hearings were face-to-face, where online mediation and colla...

Mediation is probably the most effective, quickest, cheapest and most satisfying way of resolving issues relating to the breakdown of a relationship. Hybrid mediation, a form of family mediation is an...

Proprietary estoppel provides a cause of action in equity which could prevent a person who gave a promise in relation to land from backtracking from the promise. The Court in such cases has broad disc...

We need to change the culture that gives the impression that when parents separate, their difficulties and relationships are legal or formal. The system needs to always emphasise that parents should n...

Hugh Mercer QC sitting as a Deputy Judge in the Queen’s Bench Division of the High Court handed down his judgment in the case of Arthur Deller (a child) v Ms Deborah King and Mr Guy McGarvey on 17 D...

Legal Aid, once a panacea and then squeezed to within an inch of its life, has recently opened its doors a little wider for bereaved families. The recent changes If a loved one dies whilst unde...