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The President of the Family Division, Sir Andrew McFarlane is pleased to announce the commencement of a 2 week rapid consultation on the use of remote hearings in the family justice system, starting...
The House of Commons Library has published an Insight paper examining what the Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (England) Regulations 2020 say about staying at home, and...
The Victims' Commissioner, Dame Vera Baird QC, has published a report entitled Sowing the Seeds: Children's experience of domestic abuse and criminality. The report explores the overlap...
HM Courts and Tribunals Service (HMCTS) has updated its daily operational summary on courts and tribunals operations during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. The 7 April 2020 summary provides that...
HM Courts and Tribunals Service (HMCTS) has published a summary of family business priorities previously agreed with the President of the Family Division during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic....
The government has provided advice for legal aid providers setting out what the Legal Aid Agency is putting in place to help them continue to provide service for their clients during the coronavirus...
Priti Patel has told the Mail on Sunday that the government was aware that the strict isolation rules had left people trapped in abusive domestic situations that they wished to leave. She...
The Courts and Tribunals Judiciary have released the following guidance:'During the current Coronavirus Crisis some parents whose children are the subject of Child Arrangements Orders made by the...
Sir Andrew McFarlane, President of the Family Division and Head of Family Justice, released new guidance on COVID-19, which is "intended to be followed with immediate effect by all levels of the...