Private Children Law Update - Key Principles, Caselaw & Guidance

Introduction

The past 12 months has continued to provide significant and essential updates in the area of private children law.

These have involved changes in not just practice directions, but also in caselaw, guidance and statute. These assist in providing further guidance and awareness in the running of such cases.

This webinar will provide you with an update and consideration of key principles surrounding private children law matters, and there will be particular consideration of the matters surrounding enforcement of child arrangements, domestic abuse and fact findings.

What You Will Learn

This webinar will cover the following:

• Update on Child Arrangements Programme and Private Law Pathways
• Cross-examination and children law cases - what are the current developments, and how are things to change following the Domestic Abuse Act 2021?
• Fact findings and prohibition of cross examination in children cases - what has changed?
• Use of s.91(14) Children Act and recent changes
• Domestic abuse, controlling and coercive behaviour, and children proceedings
• Developments in fact finding hearings following Re H-N and Others (children) (domestic abuse: finding of fact hearings) and K v K [2022]
• Guidance by the President on fact finding hearings and domestic abuse in private law children proceedings - May 2022
• Parental Orders Surrogacy
• Case involving parental alienation and enforcing child arrangements
• Who pays for contact? Consideration of Griffiths v Griffiths: (Guidance on Contact Costs) [2022]
• Use of nesting arrangements following A, B and C (Children: Nesting Arrangement) [2022]

This pre-recorded webinar will be streamed at 12:30pm on Thursday 8th December 2022 and will remain available to view by delegates who have registered by then for 90 days.