‘The proportion of children convicted of a crime who are from black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds has nearly doubled in eight years, an increase experts have described as an urgent problem.’
The Guardian, 4th November 2019
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘The Guardian goes inside one of England’s busiest youth courts, where every day the fate of some of the most vulnerable children in society is decided.’
The Guardian, 3rd November 2019
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has refused to give way to the concerns of claimant groups that children who suffer whiplash injuries lasting less than nine months will be denied access to justice under next April’s reforms.’
Legal Futures, 4th November 2019
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘There are differences in how children are prosecuted, who hears cases and punishments.’
The Guardian, 3rd November 2019
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘A Family Division judge has handed down his judgment in what is said to have been one of the largest public law children’s cases ever litigated.’
Local Government Lawyer, 31st October 2019
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘Human rights lawyers are preparing to bring a landmark case against British American Tobacco on behalf of hundreds of children and their families forced by poverty wages to work in conditions of gruelling hard labour in the fields of Malawi.’
The Guardian, 31st October 2019
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘In September 2017 the child was presented to hospital with numerous injuries. At a finding of fact hearing the court found that the injuries were inflicted by either the mother or father (Re B (Children: Uncertain Perpetrator) [2019] EWCA Civ 575). Neither parent accepted perpetration of the injuries and after the findings were made maintained those denials. This was a single-issue case. The Local Authority approach to the parents in assessment was that the parents were unsafe to care for the child as they denied the findings of the court. As a result the LA deemed them to be unsafe or untreatable. The Local Authority sought permanent removal of the child from the parents’ care.’
Park Square Barristers, 1st October 2019
Source: www.parksquarebarristers.co.uk
‘Some 95% of decisions at special educational needs tribunals in 2017/18 were either won by parents, or saw local authorities withdraw or concede, it has been claimed.’
Local Government Lawyer, 29th October 2019
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘The death of a two-year-old girl who choked on a cocktail sausage was caused by misadventure, a coroner has ruled.’
BBC News, 28th October 2019
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Vulnerable migrant children who have been separated from their parents will get quicker and simpler access to legal aid, after new government legislation came into force today (25 October 2019). The Legal Aid for Separated Children Order 2019 will bring non-asylum immigration and citizenship matters into the scope of legal aid for under 18s who are not in the care of a parent, guardian or legal authority.’
Ministry of Justice, 25th October 2019
Source: www.gov.www.gov.uk/government/organisations/ministry-of-justice
‘Powers to control justice, policing and prisons should be devolved to the Welsh assembly as they are in Scotland and Northern Ireland, a commission led by the former lord chief justice of England and Wales has recommended.’
The Guardian, 24th October 2019
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘Care proceedings where one parent has killed the other are particularly tragic for the children involved. This article considers some of the issues that arise in these cases and explores some of the case law when dealing with the death of one parent killed by the other.’
Family Law Week, 21st October 2019
Source: www.familylawweek.co.uk
‘The Home Office has made a sudden U-turn on its decision to ban the young children of an Oxford University professor, Amber Murrey, from living with her in the UK – the second time in a week it has reversed a visa refusal for the child of an Oxford academic following reports in the Guardian.’
The Guardian, 22nd October 2019
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘The UK’s biggest exam board could face class action from parents, following revelations that answers were being “remarked” by the same examiners.’
Daily Telegraph, 16th October 2019
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘We recently saw the High Court decide that a transgender man who gave birth with the help of fertility treatment cannot be legally registered as the father (or parent) of his child. The case has also provided the first legal definition of a mother.’
Family Law, 16th October 2019
Source: www.familylaw.co.uk
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