Family law
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Letters: We need research to look at the link between increasing numbers of children in care alongside rising use of adoption. But it is already clear that policymakers should not assume that increasing adoption will reduce numbers in care
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Judge reaches decision with ‘real regret’ on basis her five children would be ostracised by their religious community
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Reforms aim to end presumption that a father must have contact with a child when there is evidence of domestic abuse
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Justice minister Sir Oliver Heald says government is prepared to introduce urgent primary legislation to make change
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Letters: As family panel magistrates we were carefully trained in overseeing the process and ensuring that the intimidation of witnesses was never allowed
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James Munby, head of high court’s family division, to continue far-reaching reforms to bring more transparency to the system
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Three women describe how they are being forced to confront violent and abusive partners despite their histories
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Judges heard how three-year-old ‘Child B’ moved uncontrollably and ran into traffic
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Helen Roocroft, who accepted £200,000 when she split from Carol Ainscow, will have case reanalysed by high court judge
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Letters: On Wednesday 24 October a ten-minute rule bill is to be introduced to the House of Commons proposing that abortion in Britain is decriminalised
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Judge rules that former CBeebies presenter Katy Ashworth was not wrong to take child from Australia to UK
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Letters: There is little point in creating new rights until there is proper funding of Citizens Advice bureaux, Law Centres and other voluntary agencies to enforce those rights
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New Fathers for Justice demonstrators say they targeted Labour leader’s Islington roof because he was ‘rude’ about their cause
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Letters: This young British citizen is subject to protective orders under the inherent jurisdiction of the high court – and orders have been made to try to secure her safe return. But her father is refusing to cooperate
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High court judge rules in case of Amina al-Jeffery, 21, who says her father imprisoned her because she ‘kissed a guy’
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High court judge says case involving British woman in Saudi Arabia raises serious issues that need to be heard in public
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Rise in cases of children poisoned against one parent by the other during family breakdowns calls for intensive help, support service says
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Letters: Amid the current anger it is a time to be measured … be wary of using an awful and exceptional case to generate fundamental change
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