Outsiders' comments on court cases are usually inappropriate. Those directly involved have heard the cases and seen the evidence. Their views should normally be respected? Others are usually dependent on information from commentators with an agenda – even if only to get attention to their story. The Depp v Heard case comes to mind. LINK
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Lobbying pretending to be ‘research’
Members of the Family Law Bar Association (barristers) and the Law Society (solicitors) are asked to fill in a questionnaire. It was instigated by the Domestic Abuse Commissioner and sponsored by the Home Office. It is into how the family courts treat cases in which there are allegations of domestic abuse.
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FNF – BPM is the leading non-gendered shared parenting charity in England. We are a child welfare charity. We work to ensure that all children have a safe, continuing, and happy relationship with both their parents and wider families, following separation or divorce.
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Reserve The Date; Saturday 4th November. Not yet final, but highly probable. Our annual conference and annual general meeting. Somewhere in Manchester, to counter the perception that we are too London based.
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CAFCASS introduce Practice Quality Standards for working with children and families. PRACTICE QUALITY STANDARDS
This month CAFCASS have updated their practice quality standards. These are not a set of rules or even objectives that might help parents get to the bottom of their criteria for making recommendations, but a set of questions for Family Court Advisors to use as a form of self-reflection.
They may well tick one of the boxes presented by their recent focussed OFSTED report on 24th January LINK, but they are hardly a guide for confused parents. Certainly worth a read.
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