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30 March 2009
Categories: Opinion
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Mary Tudor is reputed to have said “When I am dead and opened, you shall find 'Calais' lying in my heart.” A local designated family judge recently suggested that when she was dead and opened, they would find the Bundles practice direction etched in her heart. Mr Justice Munby put it a little more bluntly in the case of In Re X &Y (Bundles) [2008] EWHC 2058 (Fam). If you ever appear in a family court and have not read this case I suggest that you do.
Case management

Under the new Public Law Outline (PLO), there are a number of specific case management documents which must be produced and supplied to the court to be practice direction compliant. If you have read this far I am assuming that you have some cursory or even working knowledge of the PLO and the documents which must now be created and, in some cases, supplied to the court in electronic format immediately after a hearing.

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