Family Law

Family Justice Reformed: A Guide to the Family Court since the Children and Families Act 2014, 2nd Edition

Edited by Sarah Blackmore · Jacqui Thomas
Family Law LexisNexis June 2017

Specifications

ISBN-13
9781784733292
Publisher
Family Law LexisNexis
Publication
June 2017
Format
Paperback
Jurisdiction
U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

Details

Previously known as Reforming Family Justice: A Guide to the Family Court and the Children and Families Act 2014, the Family Justice Reformed contains detailed commentary on the Single Family Court and the Children and Families Act 2014, Pts 1 and 2 (which deal with family justice), including clear and comprehensive guidance on the underlying procedural regime and the rationale for the reforms.

The reforms continue to represent a huge change to the manner in which professionals working in the family justice system have to approach and deal with cases, and this comprehensive practitioner’s text provides an invaluable guide thereto.

This new edition has been thoroughly revised throughout and contains analysis and practical guidance on all recent developments, including additional chapters on ‘The challenges in cases involving young adults’ and ‘Digital Court modernisation’. An Appendix contains relevant legislative provisions and guidance.

The book also provides clear practice guides, summaries and glossaries of legal terms, with a view to assisting litigants in person who are negotiating their own way through the system.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 – The case for change 

  • The history of the reforms
  • The Family Justice Review and the work of Ryder LJ

Chapter 2 – Private law disputes

  • The effects of the reforms of legal aid
  • The Child Arrangements Programme and orders
  • The child in the dispute
  • The role of CAFCASS
  • Reforms to financial remedy proceedings
  • Draft orders


Chapter 3 – Dispute resolution services

  • Forms of DRS
  • Mediation in 2014
  • Mediation through CAP
  • The Miams requirement
  • Funding considerations
  • The process of mediation – pros and cons
  • Draft MOU and SFI

Chapter 4 – Public Law 

  • The interim position – a learning curve
  • The Revised PLO
  • Draft orders

Chapter 5 – Experts

  • Part 25 reforms
  • Funding considerations

Chapter 6 - Adoption

  • The case for change
  • Fostering for adoption
  • Case law review
  • The balance sheet approach

Chapter 7 – Transparency 

  • The President’s guidance
  • Reporting restriction orders – practice and procedure
  • Case law review

About the Author

Sarah Blackmore is a family law barrister and mediator at 37 Park Square and practices exclusively in all aspects of both public and private child care law. She is regularly instructed in serious, complex cases involving significant non-accidental injury and sexual abuse, appearing on behalf of local authorities, parents, extended family members and Children’s Guardians and often represents parents suffering from mental illness, those with severe learning difficulties as well as child parents. In addition she has extensive experience of private law disputes – dealing with issues of domestic violence on a regular basis, as well other complex cases of alleged abuse, ‘implacably hostile’ parents, child abduction and transsexual issues, both on a direct access and referral basis.

Jacqui Thomas is a family law barrister and mediator at 37 Park Square and specializes in child care law. Her experience includes the representation of Local Authorities, family members and children in complex finding of fact hearings and multi-party care proceedings concerning complex medical evidence, non-accidental injuries, head injuries, and sexual abuse. Jacqui frequently appears in private law cases and finding of fact hearings, both on a direct access basis and by referral. Jacqui has a particular interest in the representation of vulnerable parents and adults in proceedings pursuant to the MCA 2005 and inherent jurisdiction, and has advised local authorities and family members, as well as Guardians acting on behalf of children, in relation to judicial review proceedings, both in relation to the permission stage and at substantive hearings.

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