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Reporting Pilot Expansion – training video for lawyers
On Monday 29 Jan the (children) Reporting Pilot expanded to a whole host of new courts across England and Wales, and a new Financial Remedy Reporting Pilot began. Overall this will vastly increase the potential for reporters to observe and write about the work of the...
Updated Guidance – What to do if a reporter attends (or wants to attend) your hearing – Pilot and Non-Pilot Court versions
This time last year we produced a guidance note for judges and lawyers to help them navigate the relatively unfamiliar scenario of a reporter rocking up at court. That guidance note was endorsed by the Financial Remedies Court subgroup of the Transparency...
Hair strand testing – pitfalls and limitations
This is a guest post by Lucy Taylor. Lucy is a pupil barrister at Coram Chambers. When it is disputed whether a person uses drugs, the family court can – and often does - order hair strand testing to determine the issue. This article draws upon the work of lawyer...
Reporting Pilot expanded across England
As anticipated, the Reporting Pilot is now being extended to more courts - another 16, as well as the existing pilot in Cardiff, Carlisle and Leeds. We have copied the Judiciary press release below. As more metropolitan courts are now included, we may well see a lot...
What is a rubric and why does it matter?
We're posting a link to this new article by Sir James Munby, retired President of the Family Division, which has been published by the Financial Remedies Journal here - The Use and Misuse of the Rubric in the Family Courts The article isn't just about financial cases...
Legal blogging – parents’ evidence in a private law contact dispute
Attending a case under the Reporting Pilot at Cardiff court recently, two questions arose for me that might be recognised more widely in private law disputes: How does a judge manage a fair hearing where one party is represented by a barrister and the other party has...
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