Lack of clarity and insufficient legal aid provision aside, what areas of family law need reform most?
David Burrows, NLJ columnist and solicitor-advocate, sets out his four priorities, one of which is to end the ‘disgrace’ of procedural child law―even the lawyers struggle with it, he writes, therefore ‘how can the child embroiled in it―for whom it is that child’s life―hope to understand?’
Secrecy is another bugbear. Burrows writes, ‘there are some remarkable things done by junior family judges in our name: careless, unregarding of the law, thoughtless comments and so on…allowing publicity…might discourage some of this behaviour’.
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