Contempt of Court for Family Lawyers - Live at Your Desk with Sarah Lucy Cooper

Introduction

Contempt of court underpins everything all lawyers do. This can be in seeking compliance with orders or undertakings or bringing committal proceedings.

Family litigation - both children and money cases - involve an understanding of the principles of contempt of court as much as any other litigation as is reflected in the number of committal cases emanating from the family courts.

What You Will Learn

This live and interactive session will cover the following:

• How to bring committal proceedings successfully - a review of the FPR, CPR and recent caselaw - get it right first time
• Interaction with criminal proceedings - should there be committal proceedings?
• Penalties for committal
• International aspects of contempt of court - do undertakings work overseas?
• Recent caselaw

Recording of live sessions: Soon after the Learn Live session has taken place you will be able to go back and access the recording - should you wish to revisit the material discussed.