Course description
Practitioners working in the area of private children law need to understand the core principles and see how these are developing.
There have been many updates in this field, ranging from practice guidance, statutory provision and new case law.
This webinar will provide you with an update and consideration of key principles surrounding private children law matters, and there will be particular consideration of the matters surrounding the interrelationship between domestic abuse and child arrangements, alienating behaviours and matters relating to enforcement and parental responsibility.
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Introduction
Practitioners working in the area of private children law need to understand the core principles and see how these are developing.
There have been many updates in this field, ranging from practice guidance, statutory provision and new case law.
This webinar will provide you with an update and consideration of key principles surrounding private children law matters, and there will be particular consideration of the matters surrounding the interrelationship between domestic abuse and child arrangements, alienating behaviours and matters relating to enforcement and parental responsibility.
What You Will Learn
This webinar will cover the following:
- Non molestation injunctions and private children law - guidance by the President on fact-finding hearings and domestic abuse in private law children proceedings
- Cross-examination and children law cases - impact of the Domestic Abuse Act 2021, and the continuing position with qualified legal representatives
- Limitation with qualified legal representatives - consideration of Re Z (Prohibition on Cross-examination: No QLR) [2024]
- Use of standard orders in cases surrounding prohibition of cross-examination
- Online pilots - consideration of PD36Z and impact of PD27A in relation to children matters - Pathfinder courts and implications
- Disclosure of information between family and criminal agencies and jurisdictions: 2024 protocol - private children law
- Domestic abuse, controlling and coercive behaviour, and children proceedings
- Developments in fact - finding hearings and private children law
- Restriction of parental responsibility - Re EMP (A Child) [2024]
- Use of experts in children proceedings - consideration of Guidance on the use of Psychologists as Expert Witnesses in the Family Courts in England and Wales (Standards and Competencies) 2023
- What is the effect of Re C (Parental Alienation: Instruction of Expert) in running private law cases where parental alienation is raised as an issue?
- Case involving parental alienation and enforcing child arrangements - consideration of AM v RF and The Children G and B
- The Family Reporting Pilot and private law
- Costs orders in private children law cases - consideration of Re B (A father) v M (A mother)
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