Marc Lopatin

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Marc Lopatin is a trained family mediator and founder of Lawyer Supported Mediation. Marc is currently convening panels of likeminded family law departments for a forthcoming pilot covering six UK towns and cities including: Manchester, London, Newcastle and Leeds. For more information email: info@lawyersupportedmediation.com.

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In 2013/14, more parents attended court without a lawyer than with one as the number of unrepresented parties surged by more than 19,000 in the first full year of LASPO. The article argues...

Following cuts to legal aid almost 20,000 more parents went to court without a lawyer in 2013/14, according to unpublished Government figures.The surge in unrepresented parents contesting child...

Recommendations offered by the Family Mediation Taskforce to Government start off well enough. Its title is spot on: 'What more can be done, locally and nationally, to encourage more people to...

For family law services, it’s a mixture of bad news with some obvious pointers for putting things right. First, the bad news: In 2013/14, the number of mediation starts plummeted by 38% following...

Over 10,000 more mothers went to court without a lawyer to fight child contact and custody battles in the nine months following cuts to legal aid, new government figures reveal. Court user...

Readers of this blog will know we campaign for family mediation to be better marketed and supported if it’s ever going to benefit larger numbers of separating families. For us - at...

In our last blog we asked if the new Single Family Court will cope with the surge in the number of parents representing themselves at court. Since then the judiciary – in written evidence...

It's now been a year since the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) withdrew legal aid from lawyers for most private family law cases. So what are the repercussions for family law services? Data from the MoJ...

In Part 1 of this article, I revealed Ministry of Justice (MoJ) data showing a material increase in the number of litigants in person presenting at family courts since changes to public funding in...

Between April and September 2013, approaching half of all parties involved in child-related private law court proceedings were unrepresented. This is the shocking result of our latest Freedom of...

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