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19 February 2018 / Stephen Gold
Issue: 7780 / Categories: Features , Civil way , Procedure & practice
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Spa justice; Charge queue; ‘Heridementary, my dear VO’; Post-judgment ‘lie’ discovery.

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The FPR Committee was this week expected to give the go-ahead to a new Form A for use in pilots for the Financial Remedies Court (FRC) (see NLJ 26 January 2018, p16). It will contain sufficient information to enable a very early allocation decision to be made by a judicial gatekeeper at the regional hub. A pilot FPR PD 36.2 PD and revised form E are in the pipeline along with work to separate—‘delink’ is the buzz word—divorce and ‘money’ so that they are started and pursued by completely separate processes. Prospective leadership and district judges to huddle in the pilot hubs have their hands up or are in hiding (as the case may be) and a tentative list of the pilot areas and the financial remedies hearing centres (FRHCs) under which they will operate has been drawn up. For instance, the proposal for the London area is that the hub should be at the central family court with the FHRCs running out of Bromley, Croydon, Edmonton, Kingston (in line to

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