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25 November 2022
Issue: 8004 / Categories: Legal News , Family , Child law
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NLJ this week: The correct approach to fact-finding hearings

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In the first of a two-part NLJ series on fact-finding hearings, Sarah Hughes, partner, and Victoria Rylatt, senior associate, Anthony Gold, look at some of this year’s key cases. These cases have grappled with difficult issues but provide extremely useful guidance, the authors write.

Hughes and Rylatt also look at the president of the Family Division, Sir Andrew McFarlane’s guidance for judges and magistrates on fact-finding hearings and domestic abuse in private law children’s proceedings.

Part one of the series looks at case management issues and the correct approach towards fact-finding hearings. Part two will examine specific issues arising in recent fact-finding hearings, namely the use of intimate images, publication and disclosure.

See the first instalment of 'How to approach fact-finding hearings' here.

Issue: 8004 / Categories: Legal News , Family , Child law
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NEWS
Talk of a reserved ‘Welsh seat’ on the Supreme Court is misplaced. In NLJ this week, Professor Graham Zellick KC explains that the Constitutional Reform Act treats ‘England and Wales’ as one jurisdiction, with no statutory Welsh slot
The government’s plan to curb jury trials has sparked ‘jury furore’. Writing in NLJ this week, David Locke, partner at Hill Dickinson, says the rationale is ‘grossly inadequate’
A year after the $1.5bn Bybit heist, crypto fraud is booming—but so is recovery. Writing in NLJ this week, Neil Holloway, founder and CEO of M2 Recovery, warns that scams hit at least $14bn in 2025, fuelled by ‘pig butchering’ cons and AI deepfakes
After Woodcock confirmed no general duty to warn, debate turns to the criminal law. Writing in NLJ this week, Charles Davey of The Barrister Group urges revival of misprision or a modern equivalent
Family courts are tightening control of expert evidence. Writing in NLJ this week, Dr Chris Pamplin says there is ‘no automatic right’ to call experts; attendance must be ‘necessary in the interests of justice’ under FPR Pt 25
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