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A perfect storm: a pandemic, contested interim care orders, an underfunded justice system and the casualty of children’s rights

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Date:27 APR 2021
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Rebekah Wilson Garden Court Chambers

Perhaps it takes an unprecedented pandemic to clearly see the shape of justice for children in the UK. Long before Covid started to ravage the normality of all aspects of life the family justice system was under pressure. A 2013 Early Day Motion captured it in this way:

‘That this House is alarmed by the cuts to civil legal aid and its impact on family justice; believes that the removal of £350 million from the civil and family legal aid annual budget is having a devastating impact on family proceedings and harming the children and families involved’ 

The impact of LASPO and the lack of legal aid for private law children’s matters an underfunded justice system looking for ways to cut its already impossible budget delays in an under resourced system and calls for the...

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