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- "Why can't I see my brothers and sisters?"
- “Best Interests of the Child” assessment in cases concerning temporary relocation
- “Un-deeming” of Relevant Person – test
- 14-year-old girl successfully challenges Relevant Person Status of grandparents
- 2 siblings rights cases: ABC v Principal Reporter & another and In the matter of XY
- A Scottish local authority Council breached its duty to provide an adequate plan to support an autistic child’s return education
- Accessing my Records
- Accessing Your Records
- Age of Criminal Responsibility (Scotland) Act 2019 - from 29th November under 12s can no longer be referred to Hearings on offence grounds
- Annual Report 2015-16
- Annual Report 2016-17
- Appeal of CSO continuation deemed frivolous because not based on a point of law
- Appeal of decision to refuse interim indirect contact by video call found incompetent
- Appeals against a sheriff’s decision on appeal from a children's hearing decision should be an exceptional event
- Are you a child or young person without British citizenship? Here’s some advice on how to apply to the EU Settlement Scheme
- Award of funding by the Baring Foundation
- Best interests of children a relevant consideration in discretionary extension of judicial review time bar
- Brexit and the rights of young people in Scotland
- Brothers & Sisters Matter: Delivering Sibling Contact for Looked After Children
- Brothers and Sisters - The right to be together, be heard, and participate
- Brothers and Sisters in Children's Hearings - What did the Supreme Court decide? Panel Discussion took place 21st July
- Calling all law students! Clan Childlaw launches essay competition
- Care Experienced Week 2022 - Our work on Care Leavers Rights
- Caught in the Past
- Caught in the past - article by Alison Reid
- Changes to eviction law as Scotland moves away from coronavirus restrictions
- Changes to the law on behaviour in childhood and criminal record checks
- Children (Scotland) Act 1995 Review: our consultation response
- Children (Scotland) Bill & Family Justice Modernisation Strategy published
- Children and Young People (Information Sharing) (Scotland) Bill
- Children's Hearings Advocacy
- Children’s Rights in Scotland: Using the law to advance policy – Project Report
- City of Edinburgh Council granted permanence order with authority to adopt
- Clan Childlaw 10-year anniversary fundraising challenge: 10 Years 10 Munros
- Clan Childlaw 10-year Anniversary Parliamentary Reception
- Clan Childlaw calls for a child-friendly legal aid system
- Clan Childlaw calls for participation rights for brothers and sisters in Children’s Hearings in the Children (Scotland) Bill
- Clan Childlaw has a new Glasgow home
- Clan Childlaw has become accredited as a Living Wage employer
- Clan Childlaw Intervention in Supreme Court case AB v HMA
- Clan Childlaw launches new training programme
- Clan Childlaw named as finalist in Scottish Legal Awards 2023
- Clan Childlaw raises concerns about proposed changes to homelessness legislation
- Clan Childlaw responds to the Children's Care and Justice Bill consultation
- Clan Childlaw secures funding to ensure young people in conflict with the law have their rights respected
- Clan Childlaw supports Proposed Children (Equal Protection from Assault) (Scotland) Bill
- Clan Childlaw welcomes changes to the law for brothers and sisters in Scotland
- Clan Childlaw welcomes first 3-year Plan to implement The Promise
- Clan Childlaw welcomes funding to tackle care experienced homelessness
- Clan Childlaw welcomes important new legal protections for siblings passed by the Scottish Parliament today
- Clan Childlaw welcomes Independent Care Review final reports published today
- Clan Childlaw welcomes Minister for Children and Young People's announcement of plans to improve the law for brothers and sisters in the care system
- Clan Childlaw welcomes the strengthening of sibling rights in Children's Hearings
- Clan Childlaw wins Pro-Bono Award at The Herald Law Awards of Scotland 2019
- Clan Childlaw's work to keep The Promise
- Clan's Care Leavers' Law Service
- Competency of Referral to Sheriff to establish grounds when child not habitually resident in Scotland
- Contact – risk of ostracism from ultra-orthodox religious community - Appeal allowed
- Continuing Care, implementation, and the gap in rights protection
- Court of Session judgment concerning discretionary leave to remain and the distinctive position of Scottish students regarding tuition fees
- Court of Session judgment concerning return orders under the Child Abduction and Custody Act 1985, and the need to take a child-centred approach
- Cross-border Placements and DOL orders
- Damages awarded for historical sexual abuse
- Decision to refuse a proof involving child’s testimony not a violation of Article 6 rights, nor against child’s interest
- Delay in family action involving children
- Dismissal of a complaint regarding government’s failure to legislate to protect identify of children pre-charge
- England & Wales: foster care relationships no different to birth families in test for family life under article 8 ECHR
- Event: 'Using the law to advance rights: Overcoming barriers and creating opportunities', 22nd November, Edinburgh
- Event: Using law and the courts to defend people’s rights – recent cases, developments & third sector involvement
- Evidential burden on pursers in relocation cases
- Evidential evaluation of hearsay statements of sexual abuse/inappropriate sexual contact from a child in civil proceedings
- External evaluation summary
- Failure to record consideration of contact when continuing CSO did not justify revocation of CSO
- Father of young children loses appeal against ‘no contact’ order
- Funding from the National Lottery Community Fund Scotland to help homeless CYP in Edinburgh
- Guides on the employment of children and on young performers
- Have evictions been banned during Coronavirus?
- Have your say on incorporating the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
- High Court dismisses legal challenge to lack of secure accommodation
- High Court reduces sentence of teenager convicted of knife offence to better promote best interests of the appellant and his re-integration into society
- Housing Law Response Project - Covid 19
- Implementation Authority bearing costs of child looked after elsewhere
- Improving legal support for children and young people in conflict with the law – why it matters and what needs to change
- Improving legal support for children in conflict with the law: Emerging Findings
- Inadvertent end to CSO with consequent risk to the welfare of a child
- Indirect contact provided for in permanence order may include parents viewing photos of children once a year
- Individuals seeking to challenge an age assessment in court should do so by judicial review
- Information for children and young people during coronavirus and lockdown
- Judgment in Sibling Contact Case in relation to Children's Hearings – Clan Childlaw Press Release
- Key opportunity to shape the law on sibling contact
- Launch of the Care Leavers' Law Service
- Launching the Child Law Network!
- Length of time a child is settled elsewhere may be taken into account when considering whether a permanence order can be granted
- Life without siblings - policy wins and reality losses
- Mandatory disclosure of an offence handled by Children’s Hearing system deemed a violation of article 8 rights
- Mary-Claire Kelly joins Clan Childlaw as Director
- Meaning of “close connection” and “significant contact” in s67(2) 2011 Act
- Mind the Rights Gap - Upholding the human rights of children who are in conflict with the law
- More choice for people experiencing homelessness - suspension of local connection rules
- My time as a Justice First Fellow
- My week's work experience with the Clan team
- Named Person scheme information sharing provisions incompatible with human rights
- Natural parents of children subject to Scottish permanence orders and their consent in English adoption proceedings
- New child-friendly court forms to be used to seek children's views in family and civil partnership actions from June
- New guidance on Continuing Care and Welfare Assessments
- New guidance on Continuing Care and Welfare Assessments
- New Joint Discussion Paper 'Overcoming Barriers to Public Interest Litigation in Scotland' published
- New leaflets for CYP
- New regulations allow siblings to apply for legal aid
- New research project to examine rights of children to participate in family law cases
- New study on Improving Legal Support For Children And Young People In Conflict With The Law
- New Webinars and Toolkits on legal issues affecting children and young people
- New: Summaries of recent child law cases added to our Resource Library
- Northern Ireland High Court of Justice finds no discrimination against teenager identified by media before charge
- Objections by child regarding return to Sweden outweighed by particular circumstances and policy considerations
- Open and here to help
- Overturning of finding of contempt based on mother’s failure to facilitate contact
- Permanence order threshold test of whether residence with a parent would be “seriously detrimental” to a child
- Petitioner asserting de facto parental relationship with nephews successfully challenges refusal of leave to appeal
- Press Release – Children’s Hearings held to be compatible with Human Rights in relation to brothers and sisters
- Project Update: Rights In Justice
- Proof concerning contact arrangements and the appropriateness of an order requiring parental cooperation
- Proof on whether the children's mother had subjected them to unnecessary medical treatment
- Radio programme tonight about brothers and sisters separated in care
- Raising the age of criminal responsibility - a step in the right direction
- Raising the age of criminal responsibility – a step in the right direction
- Recall of adoption order for failure by Sheriff to consider less drastic alternatives
- Reflections on the Street Legal Project
- Refusal to grant permanence order - failure of local authority to show permanence necessary
- Refusal to order return of child to Portugal despite wrongful removal to Scotland by mother
- Regarding the effect an acquittal in the criminal courts has on established grounds in the Children’s Hearings system
- Regarding the exercise of case management by a sheriff at Child Welfare Hearings
- Register for our conference 'Defending Children's Human Rights in Scotland: Where Are We Now?'
- Reliance by sheriff on child's evidence from joint investigative interviews to establish s67 grounds was not contrary to right to a fair hearing
- Reliance of facts established at a grounds referral proof when considering a permanence order
- Relocation order denied due to consideration of the welfare of the child
- Removal of children by mother from Italy to Scotland held to have been with father's consent
- Research examining rights of children to participate in family law cases published
- Resource: Summaries of recent child law judgments
- Results of our 10-year anniversary children's rights essay competition
- Return of child to Spain following failure to establish defence of consent to removal
- Return order under Child Abduction and Custody Act 1985 refused for Italian child placed in temporary foster care
- Ruling on siblings' participation in children's hearings
- Ruling on the sheriff's failure to make an order for breach of contact order and contempt of court.
- Scottish law centres working together for asylum seeking and trafficked children
- Scottish law on sexual offences incompatible with human rights
- Sheriff Appeal Court notes case highlights clash between procedure and need for flexibility when dealing with the interests of a child
- Sheriff Court decision on the correct test to be applied by a Children’s Hearing in considering whether to include a measure in a CSO prohibiting disclosure of a child’s place of residence
- Sheriff court decision to refuse the grant of both direct and indirect contact to a Pursuer after consideration of the matters set out in Section 11(7) of 1995 Act
- Sheriff Court: Children's Panels can instruct DNA tests
- Should it be mandatory for judges to explain court decisions to children?
- Sibling Rights Cases in relation to Children's Hearings to be heard in the Supreme Court on 13th and 14th November 2019
- Sibling rights cases reach Supreme Court
- Significant ruling issued for brothers and sisters in care
- Stand Up for Siblings - launch of new partnership
- Stand Up for Siblings anniversay!
- Stand Up For Siblings marks two year anniversary
- Stand Up for Siblings wins Herald Society Partnership award
- Street Legal success with repeat homelessness applications case
- Successful challenge to Relevant Person Status
- Supreme Court decision on whether parental consent to living arrangements can prevent such arrangements from amounting to a deprivation of liberty under Article 5 ECHR
- Supreme Court finds children's hearings to be compatible with human rights in relation to brothers and sisters
- Supreme Court grants permission to appeal in case concerning sibling rights
- Supreme Court judgment on the disclosure of criminal records - Clan Childlaw press release
- Supreme Court upholds protections for victims of human trafficking
- The actions of a local authority in producing heavily redacted documents in response to a specification found not to be in contempt
- The Promise and the Hearings System Working Group
- This Friday: launch of the Street Legal project - come along!
- Two Vacancies: Trainee Solicitor and NQ solicitor
- UNCRC in Scotland: What does the UK Government’s legal challenge mean?
- UNCRC incorporation in Scotland - our consultation response
- Update on the Review of the Children (Scotland) Act 1995/Family law review
- Update on the UNCRC Bill in Scotland
- Upper Tribunal refuses appeal by Aberdeenshire Council in case concerning placement request for child with additional support needs
- Urgent Housing Advice - Covid-19
- Use of accepted grounds in children's hearings as evidence in criminal proceedings
- Using the law to defend rights: Seminar report published
- Warning about use of evidential child welfare hearings
- We are recruiting - Operations Manager
- We're hiring Administrators
- Webinar on Brothers and Sisters - The right to be together, be heard, and participate
- What changes are there to children’s hearings during Covid-19?
- What changes will the Children (Scotland) Act 2020 make for children and young people?
- What do we do? Podcasts on why Clan Childlaw was set up and the work we do
- Who are Clan Childlaw and what has working for them as a trainee for three months been like?
- Work for us! We are hiring 2 NQ solicitors
- Your right to continuing care - new information materials
