The ALARM Conference is taking place in Manchester this week, 3rd – 5th July. This is the first in-person conference in two years, with the theme of ‘The Future is Now’.
The conference offers insight, information, and education on a breadth of topics that will feature in our immediate future, as well as the challenges that may be just around the corner, with sessions on subjects from outwitting cyber criminals to managing demographic and neurodiversity risks and to impacts of extreme weather like subsidence and sustainability.
1 Chancery Lane is exhibiting at the conference, on Stand 29, so if you are attending pop by to see Clark Chessis and some of our members.
For further information visit www.alarmrisk.com
Much of children law involves the exploration of the facts relating to the child’s care and welfare, often coloured by the complex relationship dynamics between the adult protagonists. Occasionally, however, the facts which need to be established can be more fundamental. In John v Jane…
By Laura Hibberd Re E (A Child) (Special Guardianship Order: Public Law Proceedings) [2026] EWCA Civ 1167 Special guardianship orders are often thought of as the “middle ground” of permanence: more secure than a care order, less final than adoption, and with the child’s legal…
By Tim Parker KC The President of the Family Division handed down judgment on 29th September 2026 the decision in the first appeal following the introduction of Child-Focused Courts pilot. In Re C (Child Arrangements Orders; Domestic Abuse; Child Focused Court) [2026] EWCA Civ 1216…
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