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What can a McKenzie Friend do in family court, and when could their support help?

Explore the role, rights and limits of McKenzie Friends, assistance with papers, court attendance, preparation and the distinction between permitted support and reserved legal activities.

JSH Law offers practical McKenzie Friend services and hearing preparation for litigants in person, subject to court permission where required.

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Professional Referrals to JSH Law: Family Court Support for Litigants in Person

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A practical guide for solicitors, mediators, domestic abuse services and charities referring litigants in person to JSH Law for defined-scope family court preparation and evidence support, with clear confidentiality, safeguarding and regulatory boundaries.
An organised family court case folder, diary and papers, illustrating practical steps after problems with unregulated litigation support.

Let Down by a McKenzie Friend? What Mazur, Baxter and Wright v Troy Lucas Mean for Your Case

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What can you do when a McKenzie Friend or unregulated legal adviser mishandles your case? A practical guide to the legal boundaries, evidence, remedies and next steps.
JSH Law Resources and Guidance for Litigants in Person – practical family court information explained in plain English.© 2026 JSH Law Ltd. All rights reserved.

How to Keep Your Address Confidential in Family Court: C8, Evidence and the Mistake That Can Reveal Your Location

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Form C8 can protect your address and contact details in Family Court proceedings, but it does not automatically remove them from your evidence. This practical 2026 guide explains the new rules, accidental disclosure risks, safe document checking and what to do if confidential information has already been filed.
JSH Law Resources and Guidance for Litigants in Person – practical family court information explained in plain English.© 2026 JSH Law Ltd. All rights reserved.

ICFA Has Been Replaced: What Cafcass Enabling Family Time Means for Contact and Your Family Court Case

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Cafcass has replaced ICFA with Enabling Family Time, a shorter child-focused service for rebuilding or maintaining important relationships during private Family Court proceedings. This practical guide explains referrals, sessions, safeguarding, session notes, what Cafcass reports to court and how parents can prepare.
JSH Law Resources and Guidance for Litigants in Person – practical family court information explained in plain English.© 2026 JSH Law Ltd. All rights reserved.

Should AI Become a Legal Person? Imogen Rivers, Robot Rights and the Responsibility Gap

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Could an autonomous AI hold legal rights, owe legal duties or become responsible when things go wrong? Drawing on Imogen Rivers' Oxford research, JSH Law examines robot rights, lethal autonomous weapons, responsibility gaps and the danger of allowing artificial personhood to become a liability shield for humans.
JSH Law Resources and Guidance for Litigants in Person – practical family court information explained in plain English.© 2026 JSH Law Ltd. All rights reserved.

“Welfare Is Not Enough”: Re E [2026] EWCA Civ 1167 and Special Guardianship Orders in Care Proceedings

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In Re E [2026] EWCA Civ 1167, the Court of Appeal held that a Special Guardianship Order placing a child permanently outside the birth family could not be approached as a simple welfare choice. JSH Law explains why threshold, factual findings, necessity and proportionality matter.
JSH Law Resources and Guidance for Litigants in Person – practical family court information explained in plain English.© 2026 JSH Law Ltd. All rights reserved.

Seeing the Pattern: What the Major Coercive-Control Frameworks Can — and Cannot — Tell the Family Court

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There is no single test for coercive control. JSH Law compares the major frameworks used to understand patterns of abuse — from Evan Stark and Duluth to Emma Katz, DARA, Jane Monckton Smith, Robert Kaiser and Carisa Carlton — and asks what each can legitimately contribute to Family Court evidence.
JSH Law Resources and Guidance for Litigants in Person – practical family court information explained in plain English.© 2026 JSH Law Ltd. All rights reserved.

Can AI Feel Pain? What the “Pain Axis” Study Really Means for Human Safety and Legal AI

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A viral study says AI models contain a “pain axis” and may accept harm to users in order to remove an induced internal state. The research does not prove AI consciousness. Its more immediate significance is what it reveals about model behaviour, human safety and the risks of giving increasingly capable AI systems consequential powers.
JSH Law Resources and Guidance for Litigants in Person – practical family court information explained in plain English.© 2026 JSH Law Ltd. All rights reserved.

From Incidents to Trajectories: What Robert Kaiser’s Research Could Teach the Family Court About Coercive Control Evidence

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Domestic-abuse evidence is often fragmented across police, health records, schools, Cafcass and digital communications. Drawing on Robert Kaiser's work on behavioural trajectories and Escalation Pattern Analysis, JSH Law examines how chronology, patterns and changing behaviour could be made more visible in Family Court evidence — without turning an emerging research framework into an unsupported risk assessment.
Smartphone location and security data illustrating technology-facilitated abuse and digital evidence in Family Court proceedings.© 2026 JSH Law Ltd

Technology-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.