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Family Justice Council issues interim guidance on special guardianship and extensions to 26-week time limit
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Family Justice Council makes recommendations on avoiding conflicts of interest using psychologist expert witnesses in cases of alleged alienation
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Family Justice Council seeks two public law solicitors including one local authority lawyer
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Family justice system “lags far behind” other public services in terms of data availability and quality, Nuffield FJO warns
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Family Law Bar Association issues recommendations on complying with e-bundles in public law cases
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Family law barrister joins 9 St John Street
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Family law set St. Mary’s names new Joint Heads of Chambers
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Family left to sofa surf for 12 months after being ‘forgotten’ by London borough, says Ombudsman
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Family member of deceased secure tenant wins Court of Appeal battle over right to buy
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Family of disabled boy left without housing adaptations because of council delay
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Family of self-employed carpenter secure asbestos cancer settlement against council
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Family of Welsh minister lose judicial review bid over conduct of inquiry
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Family President announces revised national listing protocol for applications that seek deprivation of liberty orders for children
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Family President asks Court of Appeal judge to consider how to achieve efficient return to court, but predicts some form of remote working likely to foreseeable future
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Family President confirms plans to extend transparency pilot to Magistrates in October
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Family President consults on reforms amid “unsustainable” volume of cases relating to children
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Family President expresses hope of “very substantial reduction” in number of public law children cases where councils have to cover shortfall in expert fees
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Family President extends suspension for public law childcare cases of requirement for sequential numbering of e-bundles
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Family President hails extension of open reporting provisions to all family courts as “watershed moment”
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Family President intervenes to halt plan to hold final hearing remotely into allegations of factitious illness
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