Charlie Gard's parents are considering their next steps ahead of the latest High Court hearing in a five-month legal battle over whether the terminally-ill baby should be treated by a specialist in America

A man who was the victim of a life-threatening attack has gone into hiding with his four-year-old son after police concluded that he remained at risk of being killed, a judge has said.

Medics from Great Ormond Street Hospital in England are meeting two international experts and Charlie Gard's mother to discuss the 11-month-old's condition.

An American specialist who has offered to treat Charlie Gard is due to examine the terminally-ill baby next week, a judge has heard.

A couple who want to take their sick baby son to the US for treatment are waiting for a ruling on the latest stage of a legal battle after asking Court of Appeal judges not to take away the "only remaining hope".

A 44-year-old housewife who was embroiled in a divorce court fight with her estranged businessman husband in England should pocket £453 million, a judge has ruled.

A woman who used to work on the shop floor of her estranged millionaire husband's factory has been awarded £73m by a divorce court judge.

The UK's most senior family judge has hit out at the "shocking" practice of separating elderly couples against their wishes in care homes.

An estranged couple behind a firm that supplies towels and bathrobes to top hotels have ruffled a British High Court judge by spending "crazy" amounts on lawyers during a divorce fight.

Doctors should stop providing life support treatment to a sick baby at the centre of a legal battle in England, a guardian appointed to independently represent the little boy's interests says.

A little girl whose mother moved her from England to Northern Ireland without her father's consent must be returned, a High Court judge in England has ruled.

A baby in England who lost consciousness had been given alcohol by one or both of his parents, a judge has concluded after a family court investigation.

An estranged Irish couple have settled a dispute over a £500,000 (€577k) holiday home in rural Ireland after staging a "Titanic" divorce court battle, a judge has been told.

Lawyers say the girl's remains have now been taken to the USA and frozen.

A couple have given up a fight to regain care of their child despite being cleared of abuse at a criminal trial.

A High Court judge is set to analyse evidence at a trial after social services staff asked for help protecting a vulnerable teenage girl they say is being sexually exploited by four men.

Saudi academic Mohammed Al-Jeffery must facilitate the return of his 21-year-old daughter Amina to the UK, a High Court judge has ruled today.

British social services bosses say lawyers advised them that they “couldn’t have appealed” when a senior family court judge ruled that Ellie Butler should return to live with the father who had been accused of hurting her.

A little boy whose mother took him to an area of Syria controlled by Islamic terrorists showed a marked and persistent interest in guns and shooting people when he returned to Britain, a family court judge has heard.

A Laura Ashley boss and a former beauty queen who have been fighting over money for more than two years following the breakdown of their 43-year marriage should declare an "armistice", a High Court judge has said.

A High Court judge in England who has been asked to decide whether medics can provide only palliative care to a ''profoundly neurologically disabled'' two-year-old boy has told the youngsters' parents that she is not in the "business of ending life".

A salesman accused of assisting in the abduction of his seven-year-old nephew in England has walked free after a judge concluded that there was a “serious defect” in family court paperwork served on him by police.

A judge has decided against returning two boys at the centre of an Anglo-Irish family court fight to their father – after analysing evidence from the man’s nine-year-old son.

A former beauty queen will have to get by on £45,000 (€60,000) a month following a divorce ruling in London.

The estranged wife of a billionaire financier who got about £200m less than she wanted after one of the biggest divorce money fights seen in an English court says she has decided not to mount an appeal.

A British High Court judge has ruled that the son of two devout Jehovah’s Witnesses can be given a blood transfusion despite religious objections from his parents.

A four and a half month-old baby looked “like something from Auschwitz” when she was found dead at her home by paramedics, a British High Court judge has been told.

The estranged wife of a multi-millionaire Laura Ashley boss told a judge how she owned 1,000 pairs of shoes.

The parents of a sick five-year-old boy who hit the headlines after taking the youngster from a hospital without doctors’ permission have been given the go-ahead to take their son to the Czech Republic for treatment.

A Muslim bigamist who smokes heavily told a family court judge in England that his estranged Muslim “wife” was not “principled” – because she smoked.

Couples have again been warned by a judge of the legal pain which can be caused when children are born as a result of unregulated artificial conception in a case involving an Irish and English lesbian couple.

A woman in the UK with a long history of drug and alcohol misuse who has accepted that adoption is the best option for her six-year-old son has been described as “truly remarkable” by a High Court judge.

A widow who won a high court fight to preserve her late husband’s sperm was last night “downhearted” after the UK fertility regulator was given permission to try to overturn the ruling.

A British High Court judge has given permission for a baby boy to undergo blood transfusions during an operation notwithstanding his parents’ objections on religious grounds.

A man ordered to give his estranged wife two Mercedes cars and a Harley Davidson motorcycle as part of a divorce pay-out has been found to be in contempt of court and given a two-month suspended prison sentence.

A man and woman who became embroiled in years of legal action over their children following a split have reached a consensus after a British High Court judge suggested they should “sit down around the kitchen table” and have a cup of tea together.

A young widow has launched a High Court fight to preserve her late husband’s sperm.

€7.28m for former wife asked to be housekeeper in new relationship

A wealthy property investment manager fighting over money with his ex-wife said he mistakenly used a British sterling sign instead of an American dollar symbol when jotting down a figure – and a British High Court judge believed him.

A High Court judge has concluded that a convicted criminal with a history of violence accidentally injured his “restless” three-month- old daughter after stepping on a “dog toy” and stumbling.

Two sisters orphaned when their parents and grandmother were shot dead while on holiday in the French Alps nine months ago can be brought up by relatives, a High Court judge has ruled.

A London High Court judge has warned parents who fear that children might be taken into care by English or Welsh local authorities against travelling to Ireland in an attempt to seek “sanctuary”.