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Bury St Edmunds Divorce Centre 8 months on – the fastest administrative Family Court?
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It has been just over 8 months since the majority of the administration of divorce suits was passed from the Central Family Court and other courts in London and the South East to the Bury St Edmunds Divorce Centre as part of the centralisation of divorce administration in England and Wales to 11 regional Divorce Centres.
From 20 July all new petitions have had to be sent to Bury St Edmunds for issue. Other steps in the suit which do not require a court hearing also take place at the Divorce Centre. Exceptions apply for petitions where there is a requirement for urgent issue. Applications for financial claims on divorce are also administered at Bury St Edmunds.
I have previously written extensively regarding the changes - see my note
here.
So how is the Divorce Centre at Bury St. Edmunds doing?
There were some teething problems as one would anticipate with the movement to one centre of 40 000 divorce suits previously dispersed over 47 courts. The early problems were delays with issuing petitions significant delays to decrees nisi and correspondence generally. In the autumn of 2015 the processing...
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