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Divorce centres: Progress report

Date:15 JUL 2015

Tony Roe

Collaborative lawyer & Family law arbitrator

We have been monitoring the progress of the new divorce centres.

Recently Twitter has seen a few comments about the operation of the new divorce centres. Below are a few examples:

South West Regional Divorce Centre taking just under 2 weeks 2 process #divorce petitions apparently. So no change from the old ways then.
— M Bataillard-Samuel (@M_Bataillard) July 7, 2015

Also told BurySE #Divorce Centre are sending applications out to local courts to issue to ease the demand/backlog #frustrating #familylaw
— Shelley Cumbers (@Shelley_TSP) July 7, 2015

Family law solicitor and arbitrator, Tony Roe, who made a series of Freedom of information (FoI) requests of the Ministry of Justice (MoJ), and whose research broke the news that Bury St Edmunds would be the single divorce centre for the London and the South East has been speaking to HMCTS. Roe said, ‘I put these comments to HMCTS and received the following reply: