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Guidance For Family & County Court Judges – Covid-19 Measures
This guidance for Family and County Court Judges through the COVID-19 pandemic was issued by the Judiciary of England and Wales on 23 March 2020.
Guidance note on the use of video and other technology
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.
COVID 19: National Guidance for the Family Court
The president of the family division, Sir Andrew McFarlane, has issued the following guidance which should be followed with immediate effect by all levels of the Family Court and in the High Court Family Division.
Developing your dispute resolution skills
Find resources on mediation, collaborative practice, arbitration and more.
Guide to International Family Law
Family courts in England and Wales are increasingly dealing with international family law cases – much more so than even just a few years ago – indeed there is every likelihood that Brexit will increase the amount of litigation in England and Wales.
How arbitration can help your practice
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?
Supporting your clients/colleagues during the month of Ramadan
During this global pandemic we are all having to operate in new ways and really understand the pressures and situations that people are facing. For those of you with Muslim colleagues and clients the period of Ramadan starts on the 23rd or 24th of April and lasts for either 29 or 30 days. With the current pandemic this may cause additional pressures for them so this article will provide you with more information in order to support them.
Establishing a healthy client relationship in an online environment
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.
Do Scottish rights for cohabitants make a difference? Spin vs reality…
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.
Deconstructing the marital pot
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.
Prenuptial agreements: A decade since Radmacher
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.
Working Remotely with Mediation Clients
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.
Coronavirus bulletin, edition 7
Resolution's Coronavirus email bulletin is published twice weekly on Tuesday and Friday.
Coronavirus bulletin, edition 6
Resolution's Coronavirus email bulletin is published twice weekly on a Tuesday and Friday
Changes – Towards A Better Way v. 2.0
In October 2019, Angela Lake Carroll gave the Henry Brown Lecture and addressed the DR Conference.
Remote Access and Paperless Working Webinar
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.
How arbitration can help your practice
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?
Coronavirus bulletin, edition 5
Resolution's Coronavirus email bulletin is published twice weekly on Tuesday and Friday.
Coronavirus bulletin, edition 4
Resolution's Coronavirus email bulletin is published twice weekly on Tuesday and Friday.
FRC hearings listed at the Central Family Court between 6th April – 1st May 2020
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.
Coronavirus bulletin, edition 3
Resolution's Coronavirus email bulletin is published twice weekly on a Tuesday and Friday.
Coronavirus bulletin, edition 2
Resolution's Coronavirus email bulletin is published twice weekly on Tuesday and Friday.
Addendum to Participation Agreement for online video joint meetings
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.
Blood out of a stone
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.
Privilege, confidentiality and illegitimately obtained documents
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.
Coronavirus bulletin, edition 1
Resolution's Coronavirus email bulletin is published twice weekly on Tuesday and Friday.
The Remote Access Family Court
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.