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NLJ this week: Judicial comity & anonymisation in the family court

29 September 2023
Issue: 8042 / Categories: Legal News , Family
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In the first of two articles on anonymisation in family proceedings, NLJ columnist and family law solicitor-advocate David Burrows looks at the issue of judicial comity

Comity, Burrows explains in this week’s NLJ, ‘is part of the law’s concern to maintain continuity in the common law and operates on a unified basis across all divisions; and it involves consideration of what judges in other divisions (eg KBD) are saying on the subject’.

Burrows looks here at what is meant by judicial comity across all courts. He covers and critiques relevant case law. In the next instalment of the article, he will look at what the particular subject of anonymity means at common law. 

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