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Family President asks Court of Appeal judge to consider how to achieve efficient return to court, but predicts some form of remote working likely to foreseeable future
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Family President confirms plans to extend transparency pilot to Magistrates in October
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Family President consults on reforms amid “unsustainable” volume of cases relating to children
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Family President expresses hope of “very substantial reduction” in number of public law children cases where councils have to cover shortfall in expert fees
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Family President extends suspension for public law childcare cases of requirement for sequential numbering of e-bundles
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Family President hails extension of open reporting provisions to all family courts as “watershed moment”
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Family President introduces requirement for court to notify Ofsted of unregistered placements where inherent jurisdiction used to authorise deprivation of liberty of child
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Family President outlines next steps for national Deprivation of Liberty court
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Family President predicts “very radical reduction” in amount of time that courts afford to each hearing
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Family President publishes guidance for judges on writing to children in family court proceedings
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Family President rejects bid by council for change to experts instructed in injury case
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Family President renews judicial warnings over “substantial deficit” of secure accommodation for children, accuses Department of Education of seeming to “wash its hands” of problem
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