Resolution Together
Resolution Together is a way of working that allows lawyers to work with and advise couples jointly, including providing appropriate legal advice, through a divorce or separation.
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Resolution Together is a way of working that allows lawyers to work with and advise couples jointly, including providing appropriate legal advice, through a divorce or separation.
As part of Resolution's Code of Practice members are asked to use the Good Practice Guides as part of their day to day work. These represent Resolution's core values and are designed to offer knowledge and guidance to our members.
The Review is Resolution's bi-monthly magazine for members. Publishing six times a year with a mix of features, law and practice and news from the regions.
Find resources on mediation, collaborative practice, arbitration and more.
As with most areas of contentious law, having to instruct a criminal or family lawyer is seldom a happy process for the client. Unfortunately, the nature of relationship breakdown means that all too often family proceedings result in the need for criminal advice.
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.
As family law practitioners it is not lost on us that we tend to focus more on marriage breakdown and how people get divorced, as opposed to what the valid requirements are for a legal marriage.
A follow-up wellbeing webinar in partnership with LawCare, the mental health charity for the legal sector, exploring practical ways to address findings from our sector-wide report.
Each month, Resolution pulls together all the latest news for legal aid practitioners. This is the June 2021 edition.
Resolution’s 6,500 members are family lawyers, mediators and other family justice professionals, committed to a non-adversarial approach to family law and the resolution of family disputes.
Resolution members abide by a Code of Practice which emphasises a constructive and collaborative approach to family problems and encourages solutions that take into account the needs of the whole family, particularly the best interests of any children.
We also campaign for better laws and better support and facilities for families and children undergoing family change.
Our current records indicate that 684 of our members are mediators with 285 of those offering legal aid family mediation services.
Resolution’s 6,500 members are family lawyers, mediators and other family justice professionals, committed to a non-adversarial approach to family law and the resolution of family disputes.
Resolution members abide by a Code of Practice which emphasises a constructive and collaborative approach to family problems and encourages solutions that take into account the needs of the whole family, particularly the best interests of any children.
We also campaign for better laws and better support and facilities for families and children undergoing family change.
Resolution’s response to the Ministry of Justice
Resolution is an organisation of 6,500 family lawyers and other family justice professionals in England and Wales, who believe in a constructive, non-confrontational approach to family law matters. Resolution also campaigns for better laws and better support for families and children undergoing family change.
Over 1,500 of our members currently offer family, children and/or family mediation legal aid services.
With the outbreak of Covid-19 many of you will not be at your offices to receive your printed copy of The Review but help is at hand. For every issue we will be publishing the articles here in the Knowledge and Resources section of our website as well as the pdf of the printed version.
David Burrows with his regular column on family law case summaries.
Practice and procedure – court ordered adjournment to encourage non-court dispute resolution –r3.4 FPR – Case management.
In Rattan v Kuwad [2021] EWCA Civ 1 the Court of Appeal signals a move away from forensic analysis of interim budgets in all cases.
In BSA v NVT [2020] EWHC 2906 (Fam) Williams J considered, inter alia, an appeal from a father against an order for enforcement of a recital to a consent order.
A review of the High Court Family Division case of FC v MC [2021] EWHC 154 (Fam) (29 January 2021).
It is now 12 months since family law has been forced into something of a digital revolution and, as such, you may be forgiven for wondering why the Innovation Committee felt it may be helpful to publish a review about bundling software options now – a year on.
As an articled clerk in 1994 I discreetly joined LAGLA, the Lesbian and Gay Lawyers Association, and I recall receiving their newsletters at home in plain brown envelopes, long before emails. All their meetings and events seemed to be held in London, where I suspected it was perhaps easier to be “out” as a lawyer than it was in the provinces.
Will the law against champerty soften in the name of access to justice?
A new guide sets out the regulatory and compliance aspects of third-party funding.
The pilot project from Law for Life and Resolution launched immediately before Covid, but after an initial dip the service is in great demand – and working for the panel lawyers too.
The Family Solutions Group’s report is weighty and chimes with much Resolution stands for, but there are parts of its recommendations that raise questions .
The remote experience does not need to be a lesser form of mediation – in fact, it can create its own advantages.
This judgment of Hayden J contains a wealth of advice and definitions to help practitioners with these difficult cases, including analysis of ‘the context of wider behaviour’.