Knowledge & resources

Adele Ballantyne, Director of Eleda Consultancy and Marcie Shaoul Director of Rolling Stone Coaching have come together to talk about how to effectively build online relationships with clients. Both Adele and Marcie have extensive experience of working with clients online and their work depends on quickly building a trusting mutual relationship to allow forward movement for their clients. Here they share some simple, effective strategies for working from home so that you can get the best from your meetings and more importantly build easy and solid rapport with your clients in a virtual way.

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

The information gathering application for family lawyers has extended its capacity into a number of new client types.

First let’s recap: for those who aren’t aware, Engage is a web application that helps prospective clients, in their own time, put together all the information a family lawyer requires ahead of a first meeting – ensuring bespoke advice can be given at that first meeting. Engage enhances the initial consultation for both the family lawyer, as they have all the facts, and for the client, as they feel prepared and informed ahead of the meeting.

An invitation to the Spanish courts provided one Resolution member – and member of the international committee – with an excellent opportunity to survey the main differences between Spanish and English & Welsh family law.

Following Re TT in the last issue, we now have P (Transgender applicant for declaration of valid marriage) [2019]: a cautionary tale to ensure that a gender recognition certificate is obtained.

How different are the outcomes for unmarried individuals in Scotland and England? To look at some of the headline differences, lawyers from each side of the border follow a couple who decide not to marry and who have connections north and south.

With the courts increasingly needing to establish historical values, robust accountancy approaches are required – but with active and passive growth, the springboard effect, and the general concept of fairness all in play, there is seldom one clear answer. 

In the first of a two-part article in The Review on the modern law of pre-nups, we look back on the Supreme Court decision in Radmacher and consider how best practice has evolved in this area.

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 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.