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Final report of the Children and Vulnerable Witnesses Working Group: An overview for practitioners

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Date:18 MAR 2015
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Amy Sanders
The final report of the Children and Vulnerable Witnesses Working Group has now been delivered and follows the Interim Report released back in August 2014.

The initial aim encapsulated in the President’s 12th View was for the Group to review the Family Justice Council’s April 2010 Guidelines for Judges Meeting Children who are Subject to Family Proceedings [2010] 2 FLR 1872 and to review the Family Justice Council’s Working Party’s December 2011 Guidelines on Children Giving Evidence in Family Proceedings [2012] Fam Law 79. There was also a need to address the wider issue of vulnerable people giving evidence in family proceedings as part of the reform and modernisation of the family court. The focus was:

The role of children and young people - the key here; how to ensure the voices of children and young people could be brought further to the fore in the family courts in a similar manner to criminal cases.

Vulnerable witnesses and parties - the need...

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