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Family courts increasingly hit by cuts as cases are adjourned

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Date:29 JAN 2019
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Andrew Powell, a barrister at 4 Paper Buildings, considers the ongoing effects of financial cuts to the justice system, focusing in particular on the increase in adjournments of Family Court cases due to a lack of available judges.

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