The aim of the Transparency Project is to improve public understanding of the family justice system in England and Wales. Its website provides a range of guidance notes that explain issues relating to family law and the family courts. Topics covered include common law marriage, remote court hearings and the use of experts in family court cases. There is a blog with updates on cases in the family courts. Information is also provided for journalists and bloggers, including a guide to the rules on reporting family court proceedings.
Child Protection Resource is a site providing information about the child protection system and law in the UK; it is aimed at professionals and users of the service and is written by family lawyer Sarah Phillimore. The site explains key elements of the practice area, such as Secure Accommodation Orders, Section 20 Agreements, and commonly used orders, such as Interim Care Orders and Special Guardianship Orders.
Website of Ukrainian Family Law, a specialist law firm based in Kiev in Ukraine. The site has a selection of free articles covering a range of topics including divorce, child support, adoption, marriage, annulment and common law marriage. There is also Ukrainian legislation relevant to family law provided on the site. This section includes the Constitution of Ukraine, the Family Code of Ukraine and the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Online guide to family law in Ukraine written by staff from Ukrainian law firm A.G.A. Partners and published and made freely available on the Thomson Reuters Practical Law database. The guide gives an outline of the law making reference to key primary sources covering divorce, children, pre and post nuptial agreements, foreign marriages, surrogacy and adoption, cohabitation, civil partnerships and same sex marriage.
Website of the Family Division of the High Court which hears cases involving children who aren’t protected under the Children Act 1989. The most common type of case is where a child is made a ‘ward of the court’. The site has forms, Family Procedure Rules, daily cause lists and a link to decisions on the Bailii website.
The Institute for Policy & Legal Studies, an Albanian non-profit, non- governmental organisation, has made available English language versions of current, previous and draft Constitutions, the Civil Code, Family Code and Code of Administrative Procedures.
The Care Inspectorate is an independent organisation which regulates, inspects and supports the improvement of care, social work and child protection services in Scotland. The site includes guidance, inspection reports and documents relating to inspection, complaints and enforcement. There are also publications aimed at the public and professionals that can be freely downloaded from the site.
A “get” is a Jewish divorce document. This website, provided by English solicitor Sharon Faith and dual-qualified English and Scottish solicitor Deanna Levine, gives detailed information about obtaining a get. A 54-page guide, in pdf format, may be downloaded free of charge; it includes a glossary, standard clauses, a list of solicitors and a list of useful organisations. The site also includes articles on the topic by Faith and Levine from the Family Law Journal, Scots Law Times and Journal of the Law Society of Scotland, together with a videoed interview with Deanna Levine.
The Family Law Bar Assocation (FLBA) is a specialist group for barristers. The Resources section of its website includes the Assocation’s responses to government consultations, judgments, news items and FLBA reports. Some other areas of the site are restricted to members of the Association.
