Renewed Efforts

The President’s Interim Guidance has been reissued to take effect for six months from April 2010, with PDs to accompany it. The initial emergency measures were intended to reduce CAFCASS backlogs by the end of March, but this extension of the Guidance is an acknowledgment that – as yet – the measures have not worked. [...]

Tear Down The Wall…

Charon QC is right. I have to comment on Jack Straw’s apparent reluctance to appoint Lord Justice Wall as the new President of the Family Division, reported on here by The Times. It is difficult to think of any reason for Mr Straw’s request that the appointment panel reconsider other than Wall LJ’s willingness to [...]

Well – DUUR!!

News just in from the FLBA: The Report from Francis Plowden – the Review of Court Fees in Child Care Proceedings – was published yesterday. Francis Plowden recommends (unsurprisingly?) abolition of fees for Local Authorities bringing child care proceedings. The Government has accepted this recommendation, and will implement it in April 2011 alongside the next three-year funding settlement [...]

Promises Promises

I AM going to find time to post something soon. Honest… He’s now two weeks old and this morning I even managed to get out of the house for a 9am appointment to register the birth. Well, I was only five minutes late…(he did a wee on his own head at 8.30am which rather threw [...]