Family lawyers at UK law firm Irwin Mitchell Private Wealth have succeeded in a multi-jurisdictional case, marking an important endorsement towards children’s voices being better heard in court cases.

Partner and family law specialist at Irwin Mitchell Zoe Round and solicitor James Henshall represented a mother seeking to challenge the decision of the Central Family Court which had decided that her two youngest children, aged 14 and 11, should remain living with their father despite the children wishing to live with her.

A number of a number of applications in England, North Carolina and California were made but the c...