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

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

Author: Sarah Blackmore; Jacqui Thomas
Publisher: Family Law LexisNexis
ISBN: 9781784733292

Previous Edition ISBN: 9781846618901
Published In: June 2017
Format: Paperback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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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.

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

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.