by Lucy R | May 7, 2020 | Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
Following on from our Alphabet Soup post about Re A and Re B (and our earlier post about Re P), there are two new remote hearing related judgments out : A Local Authority v Mother & Ors [2020] EWHC 1086 (Fam) and Re Q [2020] EWHC 1109 (Fam). As with A and B,...
by Lucy R | May 4, 2020 | Analysis, Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
Although the remote family justice soup has of late been a right old ‘pea souper’, with some difficult to digest lumps of guidance giving us all a tummy ache, some new letters have floated to the top of family justice broth this week. Re A and Re B are...
by Lucy R | Apr 29, 2020 | Consultations, FCReportingWatch, Trends
A couple of weeks back, the President of the Family Division quite sensibly decided that he needed to take stock of how things were working out, now that the Family Court is conducting many hearings by remote means, whether by phone or video. To that end the Family...
by Lucy R | Apr 10, 2020 | Comment, FCReportingWatch, Legal blogging, Trends
On 8 April, I went to Stoke-on-Trent for the day. Of course, I didn’t physically go there, but I was able to ‘attend’ the Family Court there, by joining a series of five telephone hearings being handled over the course of a day by a District Judge. I attended using...
by Lucy R | Apr 7, 2020 | FCReportingWatch, Trends
Everyone in the family court is working hard to try and keep the show on the road at a time when we can’t hold face to face hearings. There has been a lot of information and feedback from judges and lawyers, but until we published an impactful blog post by Celia...
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