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HM Courts and Tribunals Service (HMCTS) has updated its daily operational summary on courts and tribunals operations during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. The 7 April 2020 summary provides that...
HM Courts and Tribunals Service (HMCTS) has published a summary of family business priorities previously agreed with the President of the Family Division during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic....
The government has provided advice for legal aid providers setting out what the Legal Aid Agency is putting in place to help them continue to provide service for their clients during the coronavirus...
Priti Patel has told the Mail on Sunday that the government was aware that the strict isolation rules had left people trapped in abusive domestic situations that they wished to leave. She...
Sir Andrew McFarlane, President of the Family Division and Head of Family Justice, released new guidance on COVID-19, which is "intended to be followed with immediate effect by all levels of the...
The Courts and Tribunals Judiciary have released the following guidance:'During the current Coronavirus Crisis some parents whose children are the subject of Child Arrangements Orders made by the...
Mostyn J has today issued a statement about how financial remedy cases should be dealt with in the light of the COVID-19 situation and Government guidelines. Unsurprisingly, now face-to-face hearings...
In the light of the guidance this morning from the Lord Chief Justice (see below) I would like to ask all the zone leaders to propose to FRC judges the following measures.1. First...