


‘Have you thought about giving notice?’
It has taken five months for us to be able to tell this story. Ordinary cases matter. Open Justice shouldn’t be this hard.

When is an intermediary necessary? – a case study
In March, we wrote about a case, West Northamptonshire Council (acting via Northamptonshire Children’s Trust) v KA (Mother & Anor) (Intermediaries) [2024] EWHC 79 (Fam) in which Mrs Justice Lieven had included some general guidance on when an intermediary should...
An update on the family courts from ‘top judge’
An end-of-term report was published by Sir Andrew McFarlane, the President of the Family Division, on 31 July. It covered myriad topics, so here’s a summary, with a few observations added. We should clarify that this is not the Family Court Annual Report (still...
Domestic abuse and the Financial Remedies Court
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...
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