Knowledge and resources

The collaborative process helps you and your ex reach agreement more quickly than court and with the support of a multi disciplinary team.

The Collaborative Practice Working Party was set up to engage and support practitioners involved in collaborative work.

The Dispute Resolution committee works across all areas of family dispute resolution, leading innovation in process and practice.

Rob Parker gave a presentation detailing how collaborative lawyers in North Hampshire market their skills to clients, at the 2019 Pod Liasion Officer conference.

Nick Wynn-Williams wrote up this report.

How do collaborative lawyers convert leads into cases? Collaborative Working Group co-chair Tasha Bevan-Stewart presented a talk about this at the Pod Liason Officer day, 2019.

Ashley Palmer and Ian Hawkins wrote up this report.

Bernadette Hoy presented a session at PLO day 2019 looking at the quasi-judicial clause in the participation agreement and asked if it prevented clients and/or solicitors adopting the collaborative process.

Sandy Edwards, from Shropshire Collaborative Lawyers Group, wrote up this report.

At the Pod Liaison Officer conference 2019, Collaborative Working Group co-chair Ian Hawkins asked the question do we screen out some clients because it is too difficult or because we don’t have the answers?

Kathryn Ferris wrote up this report from the day.