About Family Court
Family court was originally created to be a court of Equity convened to decide matters and make orders in relation to family law, such as custody of children and could disregard certain legal requirements . . .
Judge taken to hospital after family court assault
...By Sanchia BergBBC Radio 4 Today programmeA senior Family Court judge was treated in hospital after being assaulted by a man whose case he was hearing...
‘I paid £30k to protect my child from her paedophile dad'
... Bethan has never been inside a Family Court before, but she is here to try to protect her child - whose father has been convicted of paedophile offences and is currently in jail...
Japan's top court says trans surgery requirement is unconstitutional
... The Supreme Court verdict comes days after a local Family Court ruled in favour of a man who requested to have his gender legally changed without undergoing the surgery...
Cambridgeshire shootings: Man who shot father and son dead jailed for life
... Cambridge Crown Court heard the killings came two days after a Family Court hearing...
Jade Ward: Murdered woman's family pride over law change
... It means the burden will no longer be on family members to apply to the Family Court to ask for the parental rights of a killer to be removed...
Judge to decide on ending critically ill baby girl's life support
... The judge relaxed statutory restrictions covering private Family Court hearings and said Indi, her parents and the hospital involved could be named in media reports...
Sara Sharif: So badly injured mum 'did not recognise her' in mortuary
... Originally Sara and her older brother had lived with their mother, but in 2019 the Family Court said they should live with their father, though she still had equal rights...
Family courts: 'We kidnapped our kids from abusive dads and fled the UK'
...By Ed ThomasSpecial correspondentA growing number of women who say their children were handed to abusive partners by England and Wales Family Courts have abducted them and fled to Turkish-controlled northern Cyprus...
Japan's top court says trans surgery requirement is unconstitutional
Japan's Supreme Court has ruled that it is unconstitutional to require citizens to be sterilised before they can officially change genders.
The 2004 law said people can only change their gender if they have no reproductive capacity.
Wednesday's ruling came after a transgender woman filed a petition challenging The Law .
Human Rights Watch has called it " abusive and outdated".
Japan is one of 18 countries that mandate the sterilisation Surgery - a requirement that is also opposed by The World Health Organization.
The Woman 's lawyer had argued that her reproductive ability has already been diminished by years of hormone therapy, adding that Surgery entailed physical suffering and The Risk of after-effects.
The Supreme Court verdict comes days after a local Family Court ruled in favour of A Man who requested to have his gender legally changed without undergoing the Surgery . But some groups including Save Women's Space have argued that if Transgender People are allowed to change their registered gender without Surgery , women will feel unsafe and there will be legal confusion.
The groups said they have collected about 15,000 signatures for a petition asking for The Law to be deemed constitutional.
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