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18/06/2020

Family Law Podcast – Evidence in Cases Involving the Sexual Abuse of Children

St Philips Family Team is pleased to bring you the first in a series of podcasts, focusing around public law proceedings. In this podcast we will hear from Susan Todd, Julie Moseley and Emma Williamson on the subject of Evidence in Cases Involving...

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Events
12/05/2020

Family Finance Forum 20th of May 17:00

St Philips Family Finance Team is running a series of Q & A webinars hosted by our specialist financial remedy practitioners, the first of which will take place on 20 May at 5pm. Each webinar will give you the opportunity to ask the panel...

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Family
01/05/2020

Family Procedure Rules Amendments – Financial Remedy Considerations

In February 2020, it was announced that a number of amendments were being made to the Family Procedure Rules. A number of those amendments specifically impact financial remedy proceedings and we will look at the new rules before considering their...

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Family
29/04/2020

Mock Virtual Private FDRs – All you need to know

This week saw a panel of St Philips Barristers team up with West Midlands YResolution to jointly host a Mock Private FDR to demonstrate, explain and discuss the use of Private FDR’s in Financial Remedy cases. The...

Molly Giles
Family
22/04/2020

When is it unfair to conduct a hearing remotely? A look at Re P (A Child: Remote Hearing) [2020] EWFC 32

by Molly Giles, Barrister. In the current climate the court and all parties are having to grapple with the thorny issue of the appropriateness for a family law hearing to proceed remotely; particularly concerning contested issues. Experience...

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Family
17/04/2020

Remote Paperless Working Guides

St Philips Family Law Practice Group have put together a series of short videos to assist you with remote paperless working, please follow the links below: A guide to Dropbox by Bethany Armitage How to get the most out of zoom by Bethany Armitage...

Bethany Armitage
Family
16/04/2020

Pupillage Diary – Bethany Armitage

Bethany Armitage, Pupil Barrister First six pupil The phrase ‘time flies when you are having fun’ doesn’t even begin to cover the speed in which my first six has gone. As I begin my second six it seems as though it was only yesterday that I sat...

Gemma Bowes
Family
14/04/2020

Vaccination of Children in Care

T (A child)[2020] EWHC 220 (Fam) https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Fam/2020/220.html In the coming weeks and months, we are likely to be hearing more and more about a vaccine against coronavirus, and possible pressure and expectations to relax the...