Posted in care, children, courts, family on May 11, 2008 | No Comments »
ITs been reported this week that the number of care proceedings issued in the London area is down by 30% since the Public Law Outline Pilot began, the Government in press releases and the FLBA in its recent members email both speculate that this may be down to an increase in placements with extended family. [...]
Posted in care, children, courts, family, financial on March 3, 2008 | No Comments »
The NSPCC and the Law Society have recently aired their concerns by press release about the detrimental side-effects that the enormous hike in court fees for the issue of care proceedings is likely to have on child welfare. NSPCC director and chief executive, Dame Mary Marsh, says quite rightly:
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‘It is a matter of public interest [...]
Posted in courts, divorce, family, professional conduct, representation on February 18, 2008 | 2 Comments »
District Judge Gerlis has recently written a piece for The Times setting out his ten reasons why representing yourself in a divorce might not be the best idea. No doubt inspired by Heather Mills’ decision to run her own case, I think we’d all agree that where such large sums of money are at stake [...]
Posted in barrister, blogging, courts, family, flexible working, professional conduct on February 1, 2008 | 1 Comment »
i am watching with dismay my declining hit stats on this blog, no doubt somewhat connected to my almost complete failure to post anything newsworthy or interesting in the last several weeks (or longer if i’m honest)…the fact is that sometimes the day to day to-ing and fro-ing at the family bar and the pressures [...]
Posted in barrister, children, courts, family, professional conduct, stuff on January 19, 2008 | 3 Comments »
There is a really interesting article in the December issue of Family Law (Fam Law [2007] 1107) entitled ‘Attachment Problems Among Lawyers’. In it Dr George Hibbert, a consultant Psychiatrist, writes about the issue of attachment in the family courts.
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Ordinarily family lawyers come across attachment theory in expert court reports, particularly in care proceedings, where [...]
Posted in courts, family, openness on January 14, 2008 | No Comments »
The Times reports that the government has had further thoughts on the subject of open justice. After consulting and then shelving its original proposals for opening up the family court system it seems that there is a now a plan, albeit in the early stages, to pilot anonymised judgments in three areas of the country.
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