LAW2021 Online: Family Law (Autumn)

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In partnership with our lead sponsor LEAP, the practice management software provider, we are able to offer you a discounted event booking fee of only £74! That’s a saving of £75+vat off the standard rate £149 + vat.

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This event includes:

• A high quality 4 x 1 hour pre-recorded video and audio broadcast (topic titles are listed below)
• Q&A – watch the 1 hour recording of the “Shape The Debate” Q&A session with the speakers. This is your opportunity to hear our experts answering attendee questions on both the pre-recorded content and general day to day Family Law issues
• LAW2021 Online: Family Law Exhibition – claim an additional hour of CPD, via a choice of webinar from our Webinar Learning Library worth £35+VAT
  
  

Topics covered include:

Financial Remedy Cases - where are we now?

Presented by Jonathon Walker-Kane

As we slowly emerge from the Pandemic, there is much that is positive that we can take from the past eighteen months and going forward in the way we manage our work, our clients and how the courts are dealing with cases. This presentation examines how financial remedy work can be conducted more efficiently post pandemic and takes practitioners through the case law over the last year:

• How has the pandemic affected FR cases?
• Delays, backlog, updating, valuing assets, ongoing maintenance
• What’s new in the way we manage FR cases?
  • Private FDRs - Pros and Cons
  • Arbitration
• Legislation – CGT changes
• Case Law – What’s New?
  
  • Barder events – HW -v- WW [2021] EWFC
    
  • Part III Matrimonial Family and Proceedings Act 1984
  • Spousal Maintenance and Nominal Orders

Private Law Children Cases - where are we now?

Presented by Safda Mahmood

As we slowly emerge from the Pandemic, there is much that is positive that we can take from the past eighteen months and going forward in the way we manage our work, our clients and how the courts are dealing with cases. This presentation examines how private law children work can be conducted more efficiently post pandemic and takes practitioners through the case law over the last year:

• Pandemic Effects -
  • Relocations
  • Parental Alienation
• The rise of Child Inclusive Mediation
• Private Law Applications – what is a necessary application?
• Parental Alienation and Transfers of Residence
• Latest Case Law

Enforcement of Child Arrangements - what options are available?

Presented by Safda Mahmood

The options available to deal with enforcement of child arrangements are numerous and no ‘one size fits’ all situations.

What are the options available and how do they all fit together?

What are the requirements of each?

These factors will be considered in this session

Children Cases, Fact Finding Hearings and Domestic Abuse - current judicial approaches

Presented by Safda Mahmood

Many family law cases will involve issues surrounding children in one way or another. The law relating to children law and how it first in with domestic abuse is constantly evolving. This session will cover, in particular, the use of Scott Schedules in pleading allegations of domestic abuse, the use of PD12J and the changes following the Domestic Abuse Act 2021