Family Justice Day: 3rd Nov
All lawyers tickets are sold out. There are a very few Social Care Professionals tickets left and the sale of those tickets will close at 4pm 27th October 2017....
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26
October
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12
October
Leicester Family Justice Day: 3rd November 2017
The Leicester and Leicestershire Family Law Training Association, Chaired by Martin Kingerley, present this year's FJB Day. All Early Bird Tickets are now SOLD OUT and there are limited tickets still available. This year's conference has a fantastic line up and is taking place on Friday 3rd...
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10
October
Hair Strand Drug Testing
Lawyers and social care professionals alike will be familiar with the deployment of "hair strand testing" for analysis of a suspected illicit substance consumption. These reports are often commissioned within public law child protection proceedings to provide evidence to the Court as to what drugs...
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18
September
Children Law Seminar 22nd September 2017
Places are still available for this week's children law seminar hosted by No5 Chambers in Wolverhampton. The programme and booking details can be found here....
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18
September
NEW: Domestic Violence Practice Direction
The President of the Family Division, Sir James Munby, has issued a revised Family Procedure Rules Practice Direction 12J which will come into force on 2nd October 2017 and is to be applied in all courts considering an application for a Child Arrangements Order when...
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05
September
HRA Applications in Children Act Proceedings
The course materials from the recent seminar hosted by Clare Coles and Laura Vickers of No5 Chambers are now available to download here. Please note: this is a sizeable document which may take a few moments to download....
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10
July
Guidance on the Publication of Judgments
The Transparency Project has published a very helpful and comprehensive guide for court users and professionals as to the publication of judgments in family proceedings. The guide can be found here....
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10
July
Free Tea-Time CPD this week
No5 Chambers is hosting two CPD seminars on 13th July 2017 in Leicester at 4:45-6:00pm. Participants can elect to attend either Agree to Disagree: Agreements in financial remedy post-Radmacher (hosted by Juliet Allen) or Human Rights Act applications in Children Act proceedings: An update (hosted by...
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12
June
New Cafcass Guidance
Cafcass have published new guidance to practitioners in response to the increasing burden of work which its workers face as a result of high court caseloads. The guidance is intended to allow practitioners to work in a proportionate way and to focus their time on...
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25
May
17th View from the President’s Chambers
Sir James Munby, President of the Family Division, can barely disguise his ire at what he clearly considers to be governmental "procrastination" in implementing changes to the current system of divorce and financial remedy litigation. It is now widely agreed that we should move towards...
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