Co-parenting your children? There’s an app for that! 

In 2009, Apple coined the phrase “there’s an app for that” when launching the iPhone 3G. Fast forward fifteen years and there truly is indeed, an app for everything. These days, you can manage your internet banking, watch TV, and even book flights to the other side of the world all from a smartphone in […]

Read more

Navigating Unadmitted Allegations: The Cart Before the Horse

This article is intended as a self-check for a situation which we will all be familiar with and which applies equally to public law and private law proceedings. The unadmitted allegation.  The challenge of unadmitted allegations Sometimes those allegations can be of really nasty and abusive behaviours. The very thought of them causes us naturally to […]

Read more

Re JW (Child at Home under Care Order) [2023] EWCA Civ 944

family law care proceedings

In this recent decision of the Court of Appeal, The President of the Family Division, Sir Andrew McFarlane, acknowledged that ‘a difference exists in the approach taken by courts in different regions when determining whether a final care order, supervision order or no order should be made when care proceedings conclude with a plan for the […]

Read more

To record, or not to record; that is the question. 

In this article, we get Bella Tait’s and Lisa Edmunds‘ take on how recordings of children are to be managed for the purposes of family law litigation. Bella’s Breakdown More and more, in this epoch of technology, clients are coming to their legal team with covert recordings which they want to adduce to support their […]

Read more