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David Burrows

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David Burrows is a solicitor advocate, trainer and writer; a founder contributor to Family Court Practice; consultant with Heaney Watson, solicitors; the author of Evidence in Family Proceedings (Family Law, 2016). He is a New Law Journal columnist and regular contributor to Family Law and other publications.
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David Burrows is a solicitor advocate, trainer and writer; a founder contributor to Family Court Practice; consultant with Heaney Watson, solicitors; the author of Evidence in Family Proceedings (Family Law, 2016). He is a New Law Journal columnist and regular contributor to Family Law and other publications.
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18 OCT 2013

Evidence, Practice and Procedure: Funding Family Proceedings – The Solicitor’s Charge and Sears Tooth Evidence, Practice and Procedure:...
The purpose of this note is to ask whether, in the light of the solicitors' statutory charge (Solicitors Act 1974, s 73(1)), there is ever any need for clients to sign a ‘Sears Tooth' agreement; or,...
18 OCT 2013
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27 SEP 2013

Evidence, Practice and Procedure: Contact, European Convention 1950, Art 8 and assessment of parents’ evidence Evidence, Practice and Procedure:...
In two very different contact disputes the Court of Appeal has recently looked at parents' appeals partly in the light of Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms 1950,...
27 SEP 2013
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12 SEP 2013

Evidence, Practice and Procedure – Costs, a ‘clean sheet’, and a starting-point for costs orders Evidence, Practice and Procedure –...
In Solomon v Solomon [2013] EWCA Civ 1095 Ryder LJ gives a welcome reminder of the Gojkovic costs decision of Butler-Sloss LJ - namely, that the award of costs in family proceedings may be linked to...
12 SEP 2013
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2 SEP 2013

Evidence, Practice and Procedure: Clarity in committal orders – legal aid for defence of committal Evidence, Practice and Procedure:...
In October 2012 Hedley J found that Mrs Jones had retained her four children in breach of the 1980 Hague Convention and ordered their return to Spain as...
2 SEP 2013
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29 AUG 2013

Evidence, Practice and Procedure: Judicial review, declarations and the accommodated child Evidence, Practice and Procedure:...
The inability of the courts to provide a unified system of family justice is highlighted by Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council v Others (Re B) [2013] EWCA Civ 964 (the problems it demonstrates...
29 AUG 2013
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3 MAY 2013

EVIDENCE, PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE: Stare decisis does not apply where statute overrides EVIDENCE, PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE: Stare...
The cases of Re JG (a child by her guardian) v Legal Services Commission and ors (incl Law Society and Secretary of State for Justice) [2013] EWHC 804 (Admin) and R (on the application of T) v...
3 MAY 2013
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19 APR 2013

Evidence, Practice and Procedure: Three points from the funding jungle Evidence, Practice and Procedure: Three...
What follows is not said to bolster any lawyer's union or to bleat about hard times: it is to warn how slender is the thread of the rule of law. Society depends on it being nurtured always. Legal...
19 APR 2013
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4 APR 2013

Evidence, Practice and Procedure: Working together - hearing and safe-guarding children Evidence, Practice and Procedure:...
Working Together - now Working Together to Safeguard Children - has a long history, both as a document and as an imperative for protection of children. It runs back till the aftermath of the 1987...
4 APR 2013
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14 JAN 2013

Evidence, Practice and Procedure: Stare decisis does not apply where statute overrides Evidence, Practice and Procedure: Stare...
Two recent decisions of the Court of Appeal has allowed family law cases on grounds that stare decisis did not apply because decisions of the court were wrong; though in the second (Petrodel...
14 JAN 2013
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9 JAN 2013

Evidence, practice and procedure: Inquisitorial (non-adversarial) v Adversarial Evidence, practice and procedure:...
Spare a thought for the front-line circuit or district judge who is told, often enough, by the Court of Appeal that family proceedings are non-adversarial; and then is criticised by the same Court...
9 JAN 2013
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