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B v A Local Authority & Ors [2023] EWFC 154 (21 August 2023)

Sara Chalk (2018)

The case relates to an appeal of the Children’s Guardian against the decision of the lay magistrates to refuse the application of the Children’s Guardian for a full Friends, Family, or other Connected Carers assessment of the paternal grandparents by an ISW at an IRH. The magistrates dismissed the application...

Amelia King (2016)

This was an appeal following an order allowing a 14-year-old boy (“A”), to instruct his own solicitor made within proceedings concerning an application by his parents to discharge care orders in respect of him and his sister, who was 13 years old. Within care proceedings, final care orders were made to...

Amelia King (2016)

This was an appeal against a private law case management decision by a District Judge permitting the instruction of an expert in a case involving an allegation of parental alienation. The subject children, aged 12 and 9, were parties to the proceedings through their rule 16.4 Children’s Guardian. The children lived...

No.18 Chambers are delighted to announce Barnaby Large has been published in Harvey ‘s Employment law on his case of Polystar Plastics Ltd v Mr M Liepa ( EA-2022-001040-JOJ ) , for the full extract of the case please click on the attachment....

Barnaby Large (2007)

Chambers is pleased to announce Barnaby has accepted a role as a contributor to Tolley's Employment Law Handbook, responsible for maintaining its wrongful dismissal chapter part time. Barnaby continues to remains available for instruction as Counsel....

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Barnaby Large (2007)

How wide is a Judge’s discretion on an application to extend time on just and equitable grounds? Not impermissibly so, says the EAT (Eady P presiding) in Liepa v Polystar Plastics Ltd L presented a claim without ACAS early conciliation number citing exemption on grounds PP had engaged with ACAS. Following telephone preliminary...

Gary Fawcett (1975)

This alert stems from relevance in a local case I was in recently dealing with care and supervision orders. But in Re JW the President handed down a judgement in care proceedings in which he examines the role of care orders and supervision orders in care proceedings. Being an alert, I do...

Practice Direction Update no 4 of 2023

Practice Direction Update no 4 of 2023 amends: Practice Direction 36G – Pilot Scheme, Procedure for Using an Online System to Generate Applications in Certain Private Law Proceedings relating to Children; and Practice Direction 36zd – Pilot Scheme: Online System for Certain Private Law Proceedings relating to Children and for Certain Protective...

In December 2022, a House of Lords select committee published a report on the Children and Families Act 2014, which came into force on 13 March 2014. The report concluded that the act was an example of “inadequate implementation” and had “ultimately failed” to “meaningfully improve” the lives of children and young people....

These Rules, which come into force for the most part on 1 October 2023 (certain Rules come into force on 14 August 2023 – see Rule 1): replace Part 14 (admissions) with a revised Part 14, as part of the ongoing exercise of review of the Civil Procedure Rules and related...

Practice Note: The Chancery Guide 2022

The new Chancery Guide was published on 29 July 2022. This Practice Note accompanies the second update published in June 2023. The Chancery Guide is now available online (PDF)with hyperlinks on the Courts and Tribunals Judiciary website. It has been substantially rewritten and revised compared with previous versions of the Chancery Guide...

The President of the Family Division, Sir Andrew McFarlane, has issued Practice Guidance to address some of the practical and procedural aspects of applications under s42 of the Family Law Act 1996, commonly known as Non-Molestation Injunctions. The Practice Guidance, and Annex 1 – a simplified Non-Molestation Order, can be read...

Helen Moizer (2018)

Helen Moizer successfully represented the Claimant in an appeal to the Employment Appeal Tribunal (“EAT”) and was instructed by the Free Representation Unit on a pro bono basis. “The FRU and Ms Moizer, who has appeared pro bono and clearly put many hours into her preparatory work, are to be...

Amelia King (2016)

I can only write about my own experience as a Qualified Legal Representative and the answer to the above is no, not really. The main issue in my experience is that the family court simply cannot secure QLRs for hearings or the required number of QLRs (if the case requires...

The Supreme Court has decided, in Unger and another (in substitution for Hasan) v Ul-Hasan and another [2023] UKSC 22, that when a party to an application under Part III of the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984 dies, further proceedings cannot be taken. Nafisa Hasan (“the wife”) and Mahmud Ul-Hasan (“the husband”)...

The Child Support Collection (Domestic Abuse) Bill received Royal Assent on 29 June 2023 and the bill is now an Act of Parliament. The Act makes provision enabling the making of arrangements for the collection of child support maintenance in cases involving domestic abuse. For the Act, click here....

The Guidance issued on 1 June 2023 by the Family Justice Council and British Psychological Society, entitled “Psychologists as Expert Witnesses in the family courts in England and Wales: Standards, competencies and expectations” has been gaining media attention, including in the Observer. The Guidance has been updated to include additional guidance...

Sir Andrew McFarlane, President of the Family Division, discusses recent family conferences and more in this latest update to read the post in full click onteh attached link A View from The President’s Chambers: July 2023...

Rebecca Caws (2023)

No.18 Chambers is delighted to announce that Rebecca Caws (2023) has accepted an invitation to join Chambers. Rebecca is currently a legal executive and transfers to chambers and is able to accept instructions from 9 August 2023. Rebecca transferred to the Bar in 2023 from her role as a Chartered Legal Executive...

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