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Sources of state funding in the family courts
Two cases have been published already this New Year from different parts of the meagre family courts state funding scene (for a review of that scene see ‘State funding for family proceedings: Part 3: Sources of family proceedings funding’
[2014] Fam Law 1745 by David Burrows). Each case deals with different funding sources.
Re K and H raises the point as in the context of whether HMCTS should fund the taking of evidence from a vulnerable witness (and see
Q v Q; Re B; Re C (Private Law: Public Funding) [2014] EWFC 31 [2015] 1 FLR (forthcoming and reported at
[2014] Fam Law 1398 Sir James Munby P). The legal aid question which the judge addressed was largely a cul-de-sac. The other case – known as
Re D (No 2) it has had some notoriety already – raised a relatively simple legal aid means and merits test issue. (There had been Human Rights Act 1998 jurisdiction question which seems largely...
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