Family law
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Rebecca Steinfeld and Charles Keidan launch judicial review after trying to hold ceremony at town hall and being turned away
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Legal aid cuts now mean it can be incredibly difficult for victims of domestic violence to get help and protection when threatened by an abusive partner – and lives are being lost as a result
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People representing themselves ‘clog up’ courts, says Elizabeth Gloster, as report details legal aid cuts’ effect on lawyers’ morale
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Adoption Leadership Board issues ‘myth-buster’ guide to emphasise law has not changed despite recent court rulings
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‘If legal aid is being refused to people such as this, I am satisfied that injustices will occur,’ say family court judge Louise Hallam
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Woman charged around €4,000 to arrange for couples to circumvent slow-moving Italian judicial system
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Judge overrules parents’ wishes and gives NHS trust permission to take one-year-old off life support
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Court grants request on basis that father, his birth mother and adoptive parents are all known or assumed to be dead
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Sir James Munby directs court service to pay for lawyers the Legal Aid Agency refused to provide to ensure justice is done
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People facing child custody and divorce cases without proper advice as private arbitrations rise, says lawyer's body Resolution
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Polly Neate: Domestic violence victims are disbelieved, endangered and punished by the system. Community resolution orders are not the answer
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Justice minister Simon Hughes reveals moves aimed at tackling influx of unrepresented litigants following cuts to legal aid
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Study's author says family courts need to think differently about identifying and helping high-risk young parents
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Diane Taylor: Helping unstable mothers raise the babies they love is surely sometimes a better option than the devastation of removal
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Jack O'Sullivan: The inaccuracies peddled as respectable wisdom by parenting guru Penelope Leach do more harm than good
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Sir James Munby calls for justice secretary's intervention amid concerns that man's lack of legal aid could disadvantage child
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Legal anthropologist who drew on the mediation practices of a Botswanan tribe as a model for dispute resolution in the UK
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Judge dismisses application for care order to be discharged after parents say they have improved home conditions
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Judicial Executive Board says cuts are often leading to increased costs elsewhere in court system, with extra litigation and longer cases
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Senior family judge also urges ministers to give unmarried couples living together the same rights as married couples
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Oliver James: The government is right: children need love as much as they do vitamins – and a lack of it often leads to adult psychosis
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Lawyers tell of victims facing abusers without representation and children in legal limbo while parents dispute custody
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Rachel Williams: Local authorities must provide full information and support to adults seeking access to their care records, under new rules
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Ally Fogg: The debate should not be about the rights and wrongs of conceiving with only one living parent, but about whose decision it should be
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Beth Warren speaks outside the high court in London after winning her fight to preserve her late husband's sperm
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Judge rules in favour of Beth Warren, who challenged storage time limit imposed by UK fertility regulator
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Calls for rethink on delivery of justice in era of cuts and a review on whether so many criminal cases need to go to crown court
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Judge says husband Frankie Limata entitled to £1.2m from wife Victoria Luckwell to pay of debts and get a home
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Law Commission says prenups should be binding only after financial responsibilities to children and each other are met
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Judge says mother has 'significantly failed' two boys, and father has demonstrated better insight into their needs
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Natalie Bloomer: Safe meeting places for parents and children to rebuild fractured relationships face closure as councils axe funding
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Independent advisers publish rare 'red report' shooting down justice secretary Chris Grayling's £200m move
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Supreme court says views of 13-year-old daughter of British father and Spanish mother should be taken into account
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Children at high risk of abuse should be taken into care – it can save lives
Peter Wanless, chief executive of the NSPCCPeter Wanless: Despite well-publicised cases of institutional failure or overzealous family courts, it's still too hard to get abused children protected
My ex emotionally abused me for years. The law must change to end this cruelty