‘A Protocol between The National Police Chiefs’ Council, The Crown Prosecution Service and Her Majesty’s Courts & Tribunals Service to Expedite Cases Involving Witnesses Under 10 Years.’
Courts and Tribunals Judiciary, 13th July 2018
Source: www.judiciary.uk
‘A widower who is the sole carer of his four-year-old son has been forbidden to work and ordered to leave the country – even though the Home Office’s own lawyers advised them to drop the case.’
The Guardian, 16th July 2018
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘The government has bowed to pressure to reinstate legal aid for child migrants in a major U-turn after admitting unaccompanied minors in the UK may have been denied access to justice. Campaigners, who said that access to justice for these vulnerable individuals is an “absolute lifeline”, hailed the decision after a five-year legal challenge.’
The Independent, 12th July 2018
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘The Home Office has agreed to pay £50,000 compensation after a three-year-old girl was left in care while her father was unlawfully placed in immigration detention.’
The Guardian, 11th July 2018
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘The Home Office is separating scores of children from their parents as part of its immigration detention regime – in some cases forcing them into care in breach of government policy.’
The Independent, 4th July 2018
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘A nine-year-old girl’s fatal asthma attack has been linked to illegally high levels of air pollution.’
BBC News, 3rd July 2018
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The registration of children after birth is an important and significant moment for parents. On first blush there is no obvious link between registration of a child’s birth and the gender of the child’s parents. However, this can be a particularly challenging moment for transgender parents.’
Family Law, 28th June 2018
Source: www.familylaw.co.uk
‘The government is under pressure to better protect victims of modern slavery and human trafficking in the UK, after landmark rulings against the Home Office’s treatment of a 15-year-old child and other victims. Lawyers are challenging “systematic deficiencies” in Theresa May’s flagship strategy to tackle modern slavery and protect victims. They urged the Home Office to respond to recent court rulings that show vulnerable victims are being failed.’
The Guardian, 28th June 2018
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘Scores of women have been forced to prove they were raped in order to get benefits under a new government policy, official figures show. In total, 190 women had to prove their child was conceived as a result of rape in order to receive financial support in the year after the two-child policy was introduced in April 2017.’
The Independent, 28th June 2018
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘Foster carers are to receive the 30 hours free childcare offer for children in their care for the first time from September 2018. The Government also announced that over 340,000 children were in a 30-hour place in the first year of the policy.’
Family Law, 26th June 2018
Source: www.familylaw.co.uk
‘Parents have a duty to maintain their children irrespective of the amount of time they spend with them or what country they live in. However international payment can be difficult to enforce. Parents cannot enforce an arrangement made informally between them, it must be made legally binding first.’
Family Law, 21st June 2018
Source: www.familylaw.co.uk
‘Two fairground workers convicted of manslaughter by gross negligence after a bouncy castle blew away with a young girl inside have been jailed.’
BBC News, 15th June 2018
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘In the age of the internet, privacy is an important and controversial issue. But what do privacy rights mean for children? RightsInfo takes a look.’
Rights Info, 15th June 2018
Source: rightsinfo.org
‘The Care Crisis Review, funded by the Nuffield Foundation and facilitated by the Family Rights Group, has published its report. The report considers how to address the crisis in children’s social care and the family justice sector, and explores the factors which have contributed to it.’
Family Law, 13th June 2018
Source: www.familylaw.co.uk
‘At least 40 children have been held in solitary confinement in young offenders institutions in the past year, the Victoria Derbyshire show has been told.’
BBC News, 18th June 2018
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Using a fictitious scenario Gwyn Evans, barrister, Tanfield Chambers highlights legal and practical issues relating to child maintenance.’
Family Law Week, 14th June 2018
Source: www.familylawweek.co.uk
‘The UK culture secretary, Matt Hancock, does not allow his own children to have mobile phones and thinks none should have access to devices overnight, but would not follow the French government’s lead in legislating on the issue.’
The Guardian, 11th June 2018
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘The Daily Mail reported yesterday that a ‘Nurse’s one-year-old son is taken from her care after she let him sit in a Bob The Builder toy car that was ‘inappropriate’ for his age’.’
Transparency Project, 6th June 2018
Source: www.transparencyproject.org.uk
‘On 30 November 2017 I issued ‘Practice Guidance: Standard financial and enforcement orders’ [2018] Fam Law 89 [1]. These orders, which are available in both hard and soft formats, as well as being generatable by commercial software, have been very well received. Indeed, I have learned that they are being considered for adoption, in suitably modified form, in Hong Kong. I have no doubt that those orders are achieving the objective I identified, namely to promote national consistency, and to avoid for the future, so far as possible, ambiguities in the meaning of the wording of an order.’
Family Law, 7th June 2018
Source: www.familylaw.co.uk
‘A baby could become the first person without a legal mother if a transgender man wins a historic court battle.’
Daily Telegraph, 7th June 2018
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
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