Shortage of experts in the family court
The Law Gazette reports that remote evidence could tackle an expert shortage in family court.
There has been concern that lack of experts in a number of medical fields could put children at risk of harmful delays. A judge-led working group aims to tackle the shortage that is could contribute to possible harmful delays for children.
Allowing medical experts to give evidence in the family court by remote means is one of several wide-ranging recommendations made by the working group.
The current shortages were found in the availability of child and family psychiatrists and psychologists, paediatricians, radiologists and neuro-radiologists, neurosurgeons, ophthalmologist, haematologists, neonatologists and geneticists.