A mother will go on trial later this year charged with murdering her two teenage sons. Sarah Barrass appeared at Sheffield Crown Court on Tuesday accused of killing Tristan and
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Family courts are overwhelmed with applications from council social services bosses wanting decisions relating to the care of children, a senior judge has said. Judges are often under extreme time
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An Australian yoga teacher has won a High Court fight with his estranged English partner over the future of their three-year-old daughter. A High Court judge based in the Family
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Lone parents and their children have lost challenges at the UK’s highest court against the Government’s controversial benefit cap. Supreme Court justices, sitting in London on Wednesday, rejected their appeals
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A High Court judge has praised the tireless “coalface work” carried out by social workers on behalf of vulnerable children, despite funding issues. Mr Justice Williams, who is based in
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Council social services have halted plans to take children from the care of a middle-aged couple. Social workers had raised a range of concerns including the couple’s attitude to gender
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A bereavement counsellor with escalating mental health problems killed herself and her five-year-old son amid a family court custody battle, an inquest has heard. The bodies of Cheryl and Leo
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A Kenyan singer and actor is unlawfully keeping his child in Nairobi after becoming involved in a London family court dispute with his British ex-partner, lawyers say. Shiv Singh Benawra
Read MoreAlmost a third of a million homes in Scotland have received help from a scheme that helps hard-up families struggling to pay for heating and eating. Since it was set
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An eight-year-old boy has moved home after a family court judge was told he was picking up his mother’s “hateful feelings” about his father. Judge Lloyd North decided the youngster
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