© 2026 JSH Law LtdTechnology-Facilitated Abuse in the Family Court: GPS Tracking, Smart Devices & Digital Evidence
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Technology-facilitated domestic abuse can involve GPS tracking, smart devices, compromised accounts and digital surveillance. This practical JSH Law guide explains how litigants in person can preserve, organise and present digital evidence without losing the wider pattern of coercive control.
© 2026 JSH Law LtdHow to Appeal a Family Court Decision in 2026
Think the Family Court got a decision wrong? This practical 2026 guide explains permission to appeal, the 7 and 21-day deadlines, grounds of appeal, Form N161, new evidence and the important new rule for decisions made by magistrates.
© 2026 JSH Law LtdFamily Court Bundles in 2026: A Practical Guide for Litigants in Person
The Family Court bundle rules changed in March 2026. This practical guide explains the new five-working-day deadline, who prepares the bundle, preliminary documents, digital evidence, e-bundles and how litigants in person should prepare for a hearing.
© 2026 JSH Law Ltd. AI-assisted original artwork created for JSH Law using supplied JSH Law branding and portrait photography. All rights reserved.AI Can Write 300 Pages. That Does Not Make It Advocacy.
A litigant filed a 300-page ChatGPT-assisted skeleton argument. The real lesson from Hancox v Sutherland is not that AI has no place in court, but that technology cannot replace verification, evidential discipline, relevance or human judgment.
© 2026 JSH Law LtdChild Impact Reports in Family Court: What Parents Need to Know About the New Child Focused Courts
Child Focused Courts are changing private children proceedings across England and Wales. This practical guide explains the Child Impact Report, its relationship with Section 7, safeguarding checks, Cafcass assessments, fact-finding and how litigants in person should prepare.
© 2026 JSH Law Ltd. All rights reserved.Dame Esther Rantzen’s Legacy: Childline, Safeguarding and Why Children Must Be Heard
Dame Esther Rantzen changed child safeguarding by creating somewhere children could speak when they felt unable to tell anyone else. Her legacy raises an important question for the Family Court: when we say a child has been heard, have we actually listened?
© 2026 JSH Law Ltd. All rights reserved.Domestic Abuse in the Family Court: What the IDAS Family Court Report 2026 Reveals Five Years After the Harm Panel
Five years after the Harm Panel exposed serious problems in the treatment of domestic abuse in private law children proceedings, the IDAS Family Court Report 2026 suggests many survivors are still encountering the same failure points. JSH Law examines what has changed, what has not, and why implementation may now be the central family justice challenge.
© 2026 JSH Law Ltd. All rights reserved.Child Focused Courts Must Still Be Fair: Re C [2026] EWCA Civ 1216
The Court of Appeal has given its first judgment on the new Child Focused Court model. Re C [2026] EWCA Civ 1216 examines domestic abuse, Cafcass recommendations, fact-finding, informed agreement, procedural fairness and section 91(14).
© 2026 JSH Law Ltd. All rights reserved.Unregulated Experts in the Family Court: The New 2026 Rules and What Parents Need to Check
Since 20 July 2026, new Family Procedure Rules restrict the use of unregulated experts in children proceedings. This practical guide explains who counts as a regulated expert, the exceptions, what Re Y means for parental-alienation and domestic-abuse cases, and how litigants in person can audit and respond to an expert report.
© 2026 JSH Law Ltd. All rights reserved.Can Old “Parental Alienation” Findings Be Reopened? Re SB [2026] EWFC 264 Explained
Can historic Family Court findings be reopened because the law and professional guidance have moved on? In Re SB [2026] EWFC 264, the court considered whether 2020 findings of alienating behaviour should be revisited following Re Y and the Family Justice Council’s modern approach.
