Following Lucy Coulson’s recent article looking at the challenges practitioners face in preparing for video trials, and steps that can be taken to maximise the effectiveness of any hearings, Sarah Wait reflects on the top tips for remote hearings from a judicial perspective, provided to members of the Personal Injury Bar Association by the Designated… Read more »
Arron Thomas writes about the likely approach courts may take when considering whether to conduct a remote final hearing, taking into account today’s decision of A Local Authority v Mother [2020] EWHC 1086 (Fam). Final Hearings in Care Proceedings during the Pandemic As Martin Luther King observed: “Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable… every… Read more »
Dishonesty following Barton & Booth [2020] EWCA 575 – what has really changed? Nicholas Clarke takes a look… Somewhere in a box in my garage is a collection of postcards. Originally blank but many years ago they were despoiled with my scribbling, since it was my invariable practice, when learning about Criminal Law or Torts… Read more »
Danish Ameen provides case law analysis highlighting key points for practitioners following the judgments handed down yesterday in the Court of Appeal in Re A and Re B. On 30th April 2020, the Court of Appeal gave two judgments that related to remote hearings: 1. Re A (Children) (Remote Hearing: Care and Placement Orders) [2020] EWCA… Read more »
Elisabeth Tythcott analyses some potential implications for businesses, rent and the law as a result of the Health (Coronavirus, Restrictions) Regulations 2020. At 1.00pm on 26th March 2020 the Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) Regulations 2020 SI 2020/350 (the Regulations) came into force. The Regulations required, amongst other things, that pursuant to Regulation 4, all businesses that came… Read more »
Rehana Begum discusses the importance of Article 6 (ECHR) in the context of remote interim removal hearings and the need for very careful weighing of the balance of harm during the current health crisis. In what has been a practically vertical learning curve for me in terms of getting to grips with technology for remote… Read more »
On 23rd March 2020, and in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Prime Minister confined the country to isolation. The message was clear, no one was permitted to leave their homes except to carry out essential shopping, daily exercise or to attend work. In these truly exceptional times, the question for many separated families has… Read more »
Judgment in the Court of Appeal case of Re A (Children) (Remote Hearing: Care and Placement Orders) [2020] EWCA Civ 583 was handed down this morning (30th April 2020). The case is the first appeal in a case relating to the welfare of children to reach the Court of Appeal on the issue of remote hearings… Read more »
In the interests of promoting health and wellbeing during this current crisis, members of 18 St John Street have been joining Yvonne Healing in daily yoga sessions. We would now like to extend this to our instructing solicitors! If you are interested in learning more about yoga, or building on your practice, I am happy to provide remote… Read more »
This article is a brief update on the changes to the Practice Direction at CPR 32 in relation to foreign language statements and the urgent changes that need to be introduced in cases involving non-English (or Welsh) speakers. This change, along with the other most recent updates, have been very helpfully highlighted by Sarah Wait… Read more »
A new statutory instrument came into force on 24th April 2020 as a result of the government deeming that it was necessary during the current pandemic to vary current legislation (albeit temporarily until 25th September 2020). Evonnie Chan looks at the question of whether these amendments have properly balanced the need to ensure that children are… Read more »