Private children law – 2024 update

Running family law cases will invariably involve issues surrounding children. This webinar will provide practitioners with an update on this area of law, including a succinct account of the key principles and recent case law, with a focus on changes in 2024.

Topics include:

• Practice direction updates
• MIAMs and use of NCDR, including recent changes
• Pathfinder pilot and courts: how it operates
• Child impact reports
• Domestic abuse fact-finding hearings in private children law cases
• Use of QLR and private children law cases, with consideration of Re Z (prohibition on cross-examination: No QLR) [2024] EWFC 22
• Prohibition of cross-examination and the Domestic Abuse Act 2021
• Use of family reporting pilot
• Police disclosure and private children law
• Costs orders and private children law cases
• Orders for no contact and removal of PR, with consideration of Re EMP (A Child) 2024 EWFC 12 (B)
• Case law update