Archive of: August, 2021
Flexible working arrangements for solicitors to meet client need
Clients continue to select Zoom and videoconferencing remote appointments rather than face to face in person work.
Keeping family courts and children’s services working during the pandemic
Things are opening up again but remote family courts seem here to stay. How can we be sure the family court service best meets the needs of users?
Looking at the ethics behind digital 'Lawtech'
In July, The law Society published a ‘Lawtech and ethics principles report’, looking into the benefits and problems associated with digital transformation of the legal field.
Children in the family justice system
An extremely detailed infographic visual representation, produced by the Nuffield foundation, can help show information we know, and that we still need to find out about children entering the family justice system and family courts in England and Wales.
Digital divorce from this year according to HM Courts and Tribunals (HMCTS).
We already use My HMCTS, the online case management tool for solicitors to process divorce paperwork for our clients digitally. You should not notice any change to the traditional proceedings, which had been paper-based.
Domestic Abuse Act 2021 - raising awareness
The government reports that there are some 2.3 million victims of domestic abuse a year aged 16 to 74 (two-thirds of whom are women) and more than one in ten of all offences recorded by the police are domestic abuse related.
Judicial diversity in private Financial Dispute Resolution (FDR) hearings
Recognising lack of judicial diversity for FDR hearings.