This article is intended as a self-check for a situation which we will all be familiar with and which applies equally to public law and private law proceedings. The unadmitted allegation. The challenge of unadmitted allegations Sometimes those allegations can be of really nasty and abusive behaviours. The very thought of them causes us naturally to […]
Read moreIn this recent decision of the Court of Appeal, The President of the Family Division, Sir Andrew McFarlane, acknowledged that ‘a difference exists in the approach taken by courts in different regions when determining whether a final care order, supervision order or no order should be made when care proceedings conclude with a plan for the […]
Read moreIn this article, we get Bella Tait’s and Lisa Edmunds‘ take on how recordings of children are to be managed for the purposes of family law litigation. Bella’s Breakdown More and more, in this epoch of technology, clients are coming to their legal team with covert recordings which they want to adduce to support their […]
Read moreIntroduction The Court of Appeal had very recently this year sought to provide some much-needed clarity on the use of Local Authority accommodating children under s.20 Children Act 1989. The Court had heard two appeals jointly in the case of Re S (A Child) and Re W (A Child) (s 20 Accommodation) [2023] EWCA Civ […]
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