All Outputs (16)

Family Court Guide for those with experience of domestic abuse (2024)
Other

The Family Court Guide is a practical, digital guide for those with experience of domestic abuse. It explains exactly how to apply to the Family Court for a 'non-molestation order' (if personal protection is needed urgently) and for an 'occupation o... Read More about Family Court Guide for those with experience of domestic abuse.

Comprehensive Resolution: (how) can we stop the suffering in the Family Court and help parties to resolve their disputes and to remain emotionally intact? (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

For many, the breakdown of a family is a difficult and painful process. If a dispute is not handled well, the financial, psychological and emotional impact on children and adults may be immense.

The need to find fair, cost-effective and practica... Read More about Comprehensive Resolution: (how) can we stop the suffering in the Family Court and help parties to resolve their disputes and to remain emotionally intact?.

Law commission conference 14th programme of law reform (2021)
Report

It is contended that::

Children and young people are not being listened to sufficiently or given an effective voice before, during or outside family proceedings which causes them suffering;

The rights afforded to children and young people unde... Read More about Law commission conference 14th programme of law reform.

Article 12 UNCRC and the voice of the child (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Research conducted by the University of the West of England into pre-proceedings in the field of children's social care indicates that children and young people are not being listened to sufficiently or given an effective voice before, during or outs... Read More about Article 12 UNCRC and the voice of the child.

Law commission conference: Voice of the child and art (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This is the slide I created and relied on for my 'pitch' for law reform at the Law Commission Conference (14th Programme of Law Reform) on 23rd April 2021.

Covid-19: “Honey, we forgot the kids”; Why many children in England have lost out in the current crisis and how educational provision needs to change (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

In 1918, influenza swept across the world and is estimated to have killed between 50-100 million people in one year. Prior to the outbreak of Covid-19, historians and public health specialists alike warned of our vulnerability to a new and devastati... Read More about Covid-19: “Honey, we forgot the kids”; Why many children in England have lost out in the current crisis and how educational provision needs to change.

Pre-proceedings in the context of children’s social care: The reality and rationale between different local authority approaches and practices and the impact on children and families (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Pre-proceedings and capacity: the impact of professional language and other barriers on parents with learning disabilities. (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

In England and Wales, the issue of delay in public law children cases has been a concern for two decades. Delay can lead to an increased burden on the public purse and greater uncertainty for children and families. Numerous procedural measures have... Read More about Pre-proceedings and capacity: the impact of professional language and other barriers on parents with learning disabilities..

Pre-proceedings and capacity: The impact of professional language and other barriers on parents with learning disabilities (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

In England and Wales, the issue of delay in public law children cases has been a concern for two decades. Delay can lead to an increased burden on the public purse and greater uncertainty for children and families. Numerous procedural measures have... Read More about Pre-proceedings and capacity: The impact of professional language and other barriers on parents with learning disabilities.

Why pre-proceedings work is important and needs to involve children (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

In England and Wales, the issue of delay in public law children cases has been a concern for more than a decade. Delay can lead to an increased burden on the public purse and greater uncertainty for children and families. Indeed, children have ofte... Read More about Why pre-proceedings work is important and needs to involve children.

Children's social care: Why pre-proceedings work is important and needs to involve children (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

In England and Wales, the issue of delay in public law children cases has been a concern for more than a decade. Delay can lead to an increased burden on the public purse and greater uncertainty for children and families. Indeed, children have ofte... Read More about Children's social care: Why pre-proceedings work is important and needs to involve children.

Pre-proceedings protocols (Bristol and Chester) interim report December 2016. 'Why pre-proceedings work is important and needs to involve children' (2016)
Report

The issue of delay in public law children cases is a concern because of the uncertainty it creates for children and families and the burden it places on the public purse. An aim of the Public Law Outline (‘PLO’) was to introduce a ‘pre-proceedings p... Read More about Pre-proceedings protocols (Bristol and Chester) interim report December 2016. 'Why pre-proceedings work is important and needs to involve children'.

Family law session: Transparency in the family courts and what the delegates said (2016)
Journal Article

This article was published as part of the "Update Extra" in Jordans' Family Law Journal in February 2016 and discusses the first public Family Law Session of its kind in England & Wales which took place at the Bristol Civil and Family Justice Centre... Read More about Family law session: Transparency in the family courts and what the delegates said.

Children's social care: An evaluation of two pre-proceedings protocols (2015)
Journal Article

In April 2013, a team of researchers at the University of the West of England, Bristol was asked to monitor a pre-proceedings protocol that was about to be introduced in the field of Children’s Social Care by the Designated Family Judge for Bristol.... Read More about Children's social care: An evaluation of two pre-proceedings protocols.

Children's social care: Interim briefing report (2014)
Report

This confidential report was submitted to the President of the Family Division, HHJ De Haas QC and HHJ Wildblood QC on 14th March 2014. It contained an analysis of the data that had been collected in the first three months of a UWE funded research pr... Read More about Children's social care: Interim briefing report.

Conflicts of interest: Time for a change? (2000)
Journal Article

The Law Society is currently undertaking a wide-ranging review of the regulation of the solicitors' profession, including the regulation of conflicts of interest. It is acknowledged that such conflicts are among the most common and the most central p... Read More about Conflicts of interest: Time for a change?.