Knowledge & resources

This section focusses on working remotely across your mediation practice, please read in conjunction with the other relevant sections in the Handbook (as are indicated).

As a result of the Coronavirus outbreak, all mediators have been faced with new challenges to the way in which they work. Very long held norms of face-to-face practice have been seriously disrupted and changed and it has meant that many of you will have moved to online and remote working and some will have done so at some speed in order to ensure continuing service to individuals and families.

Resolution's Coronavirus email bulletin is published twice weekly on Tuesday and Friday.

Resolution's Coronavirus email bulletin is published twice weekly on a Tuesday and Friday

In October 2019, Angela Lake Carroll gave the Henry Brown Lecture and addressed the DR Conference.

This webinar is designed to share with you the skills the speakers have learned when working paperlessly and when getting to grips with a remote working platform.

The current crisis and the problems that the courts are facing has shone a new light on how we practice and the solutions we can offer our clients.

There have been many mentions of arbitration and changes. What’s that all about?

Resolution's Coronavirus email bulletin is published twice weekly on Tuesday and Friday.

Resolution's Coronavirus email bulletin is published twice weekly on Tuesday and Friday.

The current national public health emergency requires all financial remedy cases to be heard remotely unless personal attendance is absolutely unavoidable in the interests of fairness and justice. The court must prioritise urgent cases and those involving vulnerable parties.

These Directions apply to all cases listed on or after 6th April up to and including Friday 1ST May 2020

In each case to which these directions apply, there is permission to apply to the court to vary or set aside the directions, as it may apply in that particular case. Any such application shall be made to: cfc.fru@justice.gov.uk marked for the urgent attention of His Honour Judge O’Dwyer, District Judge Gibbons or District Judge Hudd.

Resolution's Coronavirus email bulletin is published twice weekly on a Tuesday and Friday.

Resolution's Coronavirus email bulletin is published twice weekly on Tuesday and Friday.

Conducting business over online video meetings will become the new normal during the COVID-19 pandemic. This addendum to the Participation Agreement for online video meetings will be hugely useful for members during this time.

A court-appointed receiver is a fairly draconian step, but is worth considering as one possible strategy for an unco-operative ex-spouse.

Sadly, it is not an uncommon scenario: following hotly contested divorce proceedings an order is made that requires one spouse to make financial payments over a period of months or years to the other.

In November 2019 Mrs Justice Knowles delivered a further judgment in the long-running Akhmedova v Akhmedov litigation ([2019] EWHC 3140). The judgment is a helpful summary of the law in relation to the use of illegitimately obtained documents and the circumstances in which a prima facie claim to privilege can be overridden.

In this article we will explore the background to the case, the facts and issues that arose for determination by Knowles J, the law on illegitimately obtained documents and their use in financial remedy proceedings, the law on privilege, the fraud/iniquity exception to privilege, and the decision in this instalment of Akhmedova v Akhmedov. We will finish by providing some practical guidance for practitioners.

Resolution's Coronavirus email bulletin is published twice weekly on Tuesday and Friday.

The aim of this document is to identify clearly the current problems which arise from the urgent need to move to a default position of remote hearings, to identify potential solutions to those problems and to set out operational protocols to govern the position whilst further solutions are being arrived at.

In these difficult times arrangements in nearly every aspect of life are changing rapidly. This will include living and contact arrangements for the children of separated parents. If possible, parents will need to work together to agree necessary changes.

As demographic and social change mean more grandparents getting involved in active parenting, what are their rights and what issues should family lawyers be looking out for?

Anyone reading the headlines of a number of broadsheet newspapers over the past couple of years could be forgiven for thinking that there is an imminent change of law to give grandparents greater rights in relation to their grandchildren. The truth is that no such change is expected in the near future, despite pressure from interested groups.

During this time of special arrangements for everyone due to the Coronavirus outbreak we are aware that all our members are doing their upmost to continue to serve the needs of clients.

Good practice guidance for mediator members of Resolution. The handbook explains the principles of mediation, the requirements of the Family Mediation Council’s (FMC) Code of Practice and sets a framework for the conduct of consistent and high-quality mediation practice.