by Guest Post | Aug 8, 2024 | Analysis, Cases, Comment, FCReportingWatch, Trends
This is a guest post from Femi Ogunlende. Femi is a barrister at No5 Chambers. This post discusses the current approach to domestic abuse in financial remedy proceedings. For those short on time and unable to read the post in full, the key conclusions you need to be...
by Julie Doughty | Jul 27, 2024 | Analysis, Cases, FCReportingWatch
We’ve come across what we think is the first ever judgment published on TNA/BAILII where a post-adoption contact order under section 51A of the Adoption and Children Act 2002 has been made. However, this order makes rather a fleeting appearance in the very long and...
by Guest Post | Jun 26, 2024 | Analysis, Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
This is a post by Rebecca Wright. Rebecca is a barrister at Garden Court North. Be warned: Mr Justice Poole has made clear that an undefined provision in a child arrangements order, directing the parents to sort out holiday contact between them, can be successfully...
by Julie Doughty | May 9, 2024 | Analysis, Cases, FCReportingWatch
In March, we wrote about some recent cases in which Mrs Justice Lieven in the High Court had talked about the need to ‘make cases smaller’ since the relaunch of the PLO (Public Law Outline) in January 2023. One of these judgments, West Northamptonshire Council (acting...
by Julie Doughty | Mar 13, 2024 | Analysis, Cases, FCReportingWatch
We’ve noticed a number of recent family court judgments where Mrs Justice Lieven in the High Court is seriously attempting to tackle some of the causes of delays in family court cases and also addressing problems created by the scarcity of publicly funded resources....
by Paul M | Mar 3, 2024 | Analysis, Cases, FCReportingWatch, Legal blogging
Returning to East London Family Court after my first experience of legal blogging under the Reporting Pilot (recently extended to this court), I was able to see another judge at work and to witness yet another happy resolution to what had evidently been a long and...
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