We ask clients to communicate constructively, but are we always modelling that ourselves? Louise Hardy reflects on difficult correspondence, emotional reactions, client pressure and how Resolution members can help reduce, rather than inflame, conflict.
Effects on parental conflict resolution, legal professionals, and children's outcomes
The best long-term advice involves strategic thinking from a number of angles. Building teams can ensure that all the bases are covered
Members of Resolution need to complete the Code in Practice course during their first year of membership. By doing this course, we believe that you will be a more effective professional, whether you are a family lawyer or another professional involved in the family justice system.
Social media can be a useful tool for family law professionals to connect with the public and other professionals, publicise campaigns, raise the profile of members and communicate about the work we do. As it can potentially reach a wide audience, we must be careful about how our use of social media impacts on our client-related work.
The Code of Practice and recently updated Good Practice Guides help us put our values into action...
The introduction, development and evolution of new methods of resolving family disputes for changing families means there is a need for us all to look at how we communicate as members of Resolution; with our clients, with other members, with our clients’ former partners if they are not represented by a lawyer, with other members of our clients’ families, with other non-member lawyers, barristers, judges, mediators and arbitrators and more widely within the family justice system. Poor communication accounts for the largest number of complaints received by Resolution.
This document is not an abstract set of ideals, but thoroughly rooted in the issues we and our clients face every day
Written correspondence, such as emails or letters, is still the main method of communication in family disputes. The impact of letters and emails can be significant; therefore, consider who the recipient is and what you hope to achieve with the communication.
The Guides to Good Practice build on the Code of Practice by developing the ethos behind it into ...
When they join, members sign up to a Code of Practice. It is about the approach we take to our wo...
Members of Resolution need to complete the Code in Practice course during their first year of membership. By doing this course, we believe that you will be a more effective professional, whether you are a family lawyer or another professional involved in the family justice system.
Resolution's members follow a Code of Practice that promotes a constructive approach to family issues and considers the needs of the whole family.
When you joined Resolution you signed up to the
As part of the online Code in Practice course, for no additional cost you can attend a Code in Pr...
As part of the online Code in Practice course, you can attend a Code in Practice event for free.<...
You need to have enrolled in the online Code in Practice course, before you can attend a Code in ...
Resolution members commit to a Code of Practice that promotes a constructive approach to family issues and considers the needs of the whole family, in particular the best interests of children.
Family solicitor and mediator Elaine Richardson has received the 2019 John Cornwell Award.