Click here Three-quarters of family lawyers are women, while those from black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) backgrounds are under-represented, ground-breaking research among members of Resolution has indicated. It identified very few Muslim members, while family lawyers were older than the wider solicitor population. The first ever diversity survey by the family lawyers’ group was...Read More

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11790319/Prison-reform-boss-subjected-husband-15-years-abuse-jailed-four-years.html?ito=native_share_article-top Female prison reform boss is jailed for ‘worst case of coercive behaviour’ judge had ever seen: Senior manager subjected husband to 15 years of daily wine-fuelled beatings, verbal humiliation and even made him clean up her faeces Sheree Spencer, 45, was jailed for abusing her husband Richard Spencer  She gave him daily beatings that...Read More

https://news.ucr.edu/articles/2019/01/30/fathers-are-happier-parents-mothers-new-study-shows A UC Riverside study shows fathers experience more well-being from parenthood than mothers; research ascribe the difference to relative gender roles A study of 18,000 people shows that fathers experience more well-being from parenthood than mothers. Past studies have considered whether people with children have greater well-being than people without children. They do. But...Read More

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-64733182   The number of people who have never been married or in a civil partnership has continued to rise, official statistics show. Data from the 2021 census for England and Wales show nearly four in 10 adults have never been married or been in a civil partnership, up from three in 10 at the start...Read More

Full article here A serial killer-obsessed woman who stabbed her boyfriend to death with a dagger has been found guilty of murder. Shaye Groves slit 25-year-old Frankie Fitzgerald’s throat before plunging the blade into his chest 17 times at her home in Havant, Hampshire. The 27-year-old, who used information from true crime documentaries to plan...Read More

https://gazette.com/news/courts/fountain-woman-to-get-no-jail-time-for-sexually-assaulting-13-year-old-mother-unhappy/article_4a5819f0-ae24-11ed-8961-4bb59eac312b.html A Fountain woman who was accused of sexually assaulting a 13-year-old boy and becoming pregnant with his child accepted a plea deal Thursday, and as a result will avoid further jail time for the allegations. Andrea Neenet Serrano, 31, is accused of having a sexual relationship with the boy who Serrano said viewed her...Read More

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11761453/Im-innocent-f-k-Killer-moms-warped-words-shes-jailed-brutal-murder-son-6.html A mother snarled: ‘I’m innocent, f**k you all, you’re garbage,’ in court as she was jailed for life for killing her six year-old son by blasting him nine times with a shotgun. Julissa Thaler, 29, launched into the vile diatribe as she was sentenced to life without parole by a Minneapolis judge Thursday for...Read More

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-64540448 A 12-year-old girl was left “shattered” after her dad died suddenly the night before he planned to book a family holiday. The devastating blow came just months after Ruby, from Merthyr Tydfil, had lost her great-grandmother to dementia. At the time, in 2018, she felt unable to talk about it or even cry, with...Read More

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-64502021 Charges of attempted rape and assault have been dropped against Manchester United footballer Mason Greenwood. The 21-year-old was arrested in January 2022 amid allegations surrounding images and videos. He was later charged with attempted rape, controlling and coercive behaviour and assault occasioning actual bodily harm. In a statement, Greenwood said he was “relieved” and...Read More