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MRO Fee Recovery Cap Set at 25% Following Landmark Costs Ruling
A significant costs judgment is set to reshape how medical evidence is funded in personal injury and clinical negligence litigation. In JXX v Archibald, Senior Costs Judge Rowley departed from ...
Read More Court of Appeal Endorses Re C and Re Y
The Court of Appeal — comprising the President of the Family Division, Lord Justice Lewison and Lord Justice Peter Jackson — dismissed a mother's appeal against care orders made in ...
Read More Repeal of Parental Involvement Presumption Advances
The Bill's Public Bill Committee concluded on 28 April 2026 after taking evidence from over 130 written submissions, and the Bill was reintroduced at Report Stage in the House of ...
Read More New “Multifactorial” Test for Deprivation of Liberty
In a unanimous seven-Justice judgment, the Supreme Court overruled its own 2014 decision in Cheshire West, discarding the "acid test" that had governed deprivation of liberty assessments for over a ...
Read More Courts and Tribunals Bill Removes the Presumption That Parental Contact Serves Children’s Welfare
The Courts and Tribunals Bill, introduced to Parliament on 25 February 2026, contains Clause 17, which repeals the presumption of parental involvement in section 1(2A) of the Children Act 1989. ...
Read More Child Focused Courts Roll Out Nationally
The government confirmed on 17 March 2026 that Child Focused Courts — formerly known as Pathfinder Courts — will be expanded across the entirety of England and Wales, following a ...
Read More Parliamentary Committee Debates the End of the Parental Involvement Presumption
The Courts and Tribunals Bill, introduced to the House of Commons on 25 February 2026, includes Clause 17, which would remove the presumption of parental involvement from section 1(2A) of ...
Read More Supreme Court Rejects Bid to Revoke Adoption of Sisters
The Supreme Court affirmed the Court of Appeal's earlier decision in Re X and Y (Children: Adoption Order: Setting Aside) [2026] UKSC 13, confirming that the High Court does not ...
Read More The Teenager Who Took On the Family Courts and Won
TBIJ reported the story of a girl pseudonymised as Florence, who was taken from her mother aged 10 and spent five years battling to reverse court orders influenced by expert ...
Read More Parallel Family and Criminal Proceedings
In Re C (Born August 2022) [2026] EWFC 74 (B), Deputy District Judge Nahal-Macdonald, sitting at Bromley, raised concerns about the confusion created when the same allegations of domestic abuse ...
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