With the seemingly never-ending increase in popularity of social media and our apparently insatiable appetite for sharing every little detail with our friends and family online (and depending on our privacy settings, whoever else happens to be “listening”), it was only a matter of time before we all started to wonder exactly how much is too much.
The Family Court is to be issued with new guidance on how to deal with vulnerable witnesses and children. Family law is an inherently emotional area of law and a great many of those coming to court are in an emotionally vulnerable state, not to mention those who have suffered physical or emotional abuse at…
The trial of a new court system, the Family Drug and Alcohol Court (FDAC), has proved a great success in tackling the problems of substance abuse in family proceedings. The FDAC pilot ran from January 2008 to March 2012 at the Inner London Family Proceedings Court. The initiative was introduced to try to reduce the…