Social services staff want a High Court judge to intervene in a bid to protect a vulnerable teenage girl they say is being sexually exploited by four men. Lawyers representing
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A baby boy whose father advocates the use of “harmful alternative medication” should be taken into council care, a family court judge has decided. The man had sold Master Mineral
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A council has agreed to pay £7,500 damages to an 11-year-old girl after delaying decisions about her future. Thurrock Council – which is based in Grays, Essex – is the
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Soaring numbers of prisoners are being returned to custody after being released, creating a “revolving door” system which needs to be overhauled, a campaign group has claimed. Offenders who are
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A mother who lied about her children being ill, forcing them to have surgery as part of a plan to falsely claim benefits showed no remorse during her three-month trial,
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A Crown Court judge said he was “sorry” justice had not come sooner after 13 young people sexually abused by a former children’s home worker and Catholic priest had to
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The grandfather of murdered six-year-old Ellie Butler has told how his life savings were wiped out fighting for her custody while taxpayers picked up her killer father’s vast legal bill.
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A judge has given guidance on how the behaviour of elderly people with dementia might be interpreted – in a bid to help relatives with welfare responsibilities. People whose freedom
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A scoping study, aiming to explore the feasibility of establishing a new national family justice observatory, is being led by a team from Lancaster University. The scoping study was commissioned
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A leading Aids charity has won a High Court battle over whether a preventative treatment for HIV which charities say is a “game-changer” can legally be funded by the NHS.
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