Lawyers in Lockdown 2: A Remote Day in Court

At time of writing public and media suggestion has continued that the current lockdown will come to a natural conclusion as some time in the coming months. When or how remains a further mystery to family practitioners across the country but it stands to reason that this won’t be a sudden gear change. Remote hearings are still being listed with most in person hearings slated to start returning in August and following. That was the case even back in March and April.

What that says to me is that there will still be remote hearings taking place for weeks maybe even a few months as they had been originally listed – it cannot be the case that in person hearings will suddenly recommence without warning. I might well be proven wrong on that point but for the foreseeable future those remote hearings are likely to remain listed.

That makes my points from my last post perhaps all the more relevant as we continue pressing forward. How different does a remote hearing day actually look to a practitioner? That is the question I am going to examine today by...

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