Law & Policy

For anyone going through personal and family difficulties, it is important to have an understanding of what rights the child, parents, and other family members have, what are the procedures involved when a case goes to court, how does one apply for a court order in the first place, what other useful bodies/agencies can one turn to for help, and so on.

If one is informed, the process can become a lot less daunting

Choose from the topics in the left hand menu.

 

 

FREE LEGAL REFERENCES

 

• Family Law Week

“Family Law Week provides free access to all the latest family law news, judgments, analysis and legislation. The content is free .”  

Judgments, articles and pdfs of this year’s newsletters are available at the click of your mouse.

 

• BAILII (British and Irish Legal Information Institute)

Use the index on the left (BAILII Databases) to select either England and Wales Court of Appeal (Civil Division) or England and Wales High Court / Family Division

 

There are many other sources of free information relating to family law, which cannot all be detailed here, but for a start you could look at the following:

• The Family Court Bench Book of the Judicial Studies Board

• UK Statute Law Database which will give you the text of relevant statutes as amended / updated by subsequent legislation and statutory instruments. In order to locate any statute you will need to have a good idea of its name and year.

• Family Law Newswatch is a free service from the publishers of the monthly Family Law journal which it says gives, "... the latest news, cases and legislation plus abstracts of key articles and commentary ... ."  You can also sign up to receive free email alerts of "latest news, cases and legislation."