The Department of Education has today published National Minimum Standards for Adoption Services. Together with the adoption regulations, the Standards form the basis of the regulatory framework under the Care Standards Act 2000 for the conduct of adoption agencies and adoption support agencies. The new Standards can...
Read MoreThe Family Justice Young People’s Board (FJYPB) recently hosted their 2014 conference, The Voice of the Child. The event was attended by several members of the Board, as well as many adult family justice professionals. Social workers, Cafcass, solicitors, barristers, magistrates, the judiciary, legal advisers,...
Read MorePUBLIC LAW Re DE (A Child) [2014] EWFC 6 Appeal by parents against refusal of an injunction to prevent the immediate removal of their child where he had remained at home under a care order. Appeal allowed and matter remitted for a full hearing. The LA has commenced...
Read MoreThe Leicester Family Court has recently begun an "At Court Mediator" scheme. There will be a mediator available at court each Thursday to assist parties who are attending a First Hearing Dispute Resolution Appointment (FHDRA) in private law children cases. There is also a pro-bono "Duty...
Read MoreThe Voice of the Child Conference 2014 will be hosted by the Family Justice Young People's Board on 24th July 2014. The agenda this year includes a welcome address from Rt Hon Simon Hughes MP, Minister of State for Justice and Civil Liberties and a closing...
Read MoreOur annual conference will be held this year on Friday 10th October at the University of Leicester Stamford Court Conference Centre. The title is "Modern Families - Challenges, Choices and Opportunities" and the keynote speaker this year will be Mr Justice Hayden. Further details and booking forms...
Read MoreWe are so pleased to finally bring you LLFJB.com, the fantastic new website for the Leicester & Leicestershire Family Justice Board....
Read MorePUBLIC LAW N (A Child) (Adoption Order) [2014] EWFC 1491 Consideration of special guardianship orders against adoption orders particularly in light of Re B-S [2013] EWCA Civ 813. Concerning a child, N, aged 5. N was born prematurely and spent the first seven months of her life in...
Read MorePUBLIC LAW R (A Child) [2014] EWCA Civ 270 Appeal by a father against findings of fact. Observations by the Court of Appeal regarding the weight to be attached to flawed ABE interview and the threshold for dislodging findings of fact on appeal. The father appealed against findings...
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