Section 20 Guidance Mark 2

Just a brief note to confirm we’ve now uploaded version 2 of the section 20 guidance having incorporated all your helpful feedback (sorry, some of us were on holiday so this was not as quick as we had hoped!) You can find version 2 here and in the Resources...

New “child-friendly” court design

Readers may recall last year’s Report of the Vulnerable Witnesses & Children Working Group (March 2015) (the “Hayden / Russell Working Group”) which recommended at para 34: “The need for greater transparency has been a leitmotif of recent modernisation of family...

Social Media Evidence in Family Proceedings

I attended this very popular event organised by the London Family Justice Board at the Law Society this week. The large Common Room was packed. Unfortunately due to train issues I missed the very beginning and had to rush off before the end of questions but...

Recording Guidance – update

We’ve made some very minor corrections to our guidance note – the version now on the site is version 2, Jan 16. Older versions are still fine, but the corrections were as follows : We’d inadvertently put the wrong year in for the Data Protection Act...