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28 March 2025 / Team Courtney
Issue: 8110 / Categories: Features , Profession , Charities , Divorce , Family
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Courtney Legal: a library for all

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A lack of resources has left many families at a loss when it comes to legal advice: now, an innovative law library, Courtney Legal, is providing answers
  • Courtney Legal is an online service that makes legal information easy to understand and uses visual learning techniques to empower anyone who is contemplating or going through a divorce.

On 23 January 2025, Courtney Legal, the first audio-visual law library showing the key hearings and non-court dispute resolution (NCDR) processes in English family law, was launched at a panel event chaired by Baroness Hale. Twenty years after YouTube landed, it is now possible to view the practical activity that goes on within many family court hearings. Unlike the well-known digital libraries from the global publishing giants, this library is available to all, not just those within or studying the law.

Courtney’s library currently stretches to around 60 individual family law topics with a variety of audio-explainers, animations (including NCDR processes), toolkits and articles broken down into intuitive segments, and largely scrubbed of jargon.

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