Private, Public and Family Finance Webinar Series 2024

42BR's Family Group is delighted to present our most comprehensive family law webinar series to date.

Covering topics across private and public child law, as well as family finance, this webinar series will span from February to July 2024.

Private Law

Wednesday 28 February - 5pm

Eléonore Berthelsen and Krishma Patel kick start the series discussing barring orders under s.91(14) of the Children Act 1989.

'Can't you make it stop?' Recording

Tuesday 19 March - 5pm

Jennifer Youngs and Lee Kelleher present a practical summary to covert recordings within private law proceedings.

'Covert Recordings in Private Law Proceedings' Recording

Thursday 4 April - 5pm

Siân Smith and Catrin Howells review the latest news and key decisions in private law proceedings.

'Private Law Update' Recording

Public Law

Thursday 25 April - 5pm

The final report of the Public Law Working Group published on 01.03.21 focused on Supervision Orders as standalone orders to assist the return of children home or to family members.

During this webinar, Jo Porter, will consider the findings of the report together with the current guidance on the use of Supervision Orders, including statistics around their use and outcomes for children. The proposed next steps will be explored, with an attempt to answer the question of whether Supervision orders are worth the paper they are printed on and where we are now.

'Are supervision orders worth the paper they are printed on?' Recording

Thursday 23 May - 5pm

Amanda Jepson and Carolina Bax provide a concise round up of the most relevant cases to have been reported in the last 12 months.

'Public Law Update' Recording.

Thursday 13 June - 5pm

When proceedings commence because a child is ‘beyond parental control’ to what extent is it necessary or helpful to pursue in addition threshold findings that a child has also suffered significant harm as a consequence of the care they have received? Do such findings shift the ‘blame’ away from the parents and onto the child? George Butler (42BR Barristers) is joined by Dr Ben Laskey (Chartered Psychologist) to explore the implications of seeking these findings from both a legal and psychological perspective.

'Beyond parental control. Is anyone to blame?' Recording

Thursday 25 July - 5pm

During this webinar Gemma Taylor KC and Ann Osborne will explore the duties of LAs to notify parents and foreign authorities of proceedings, to disclose papers within proceedings to parents, how/when those duties can be discharged/ limited and the procedure for applying to restrict/ discharge an LA’s duty to notify or provide disclosure.

'Disclosure - an absolute duty or not?' Recording

Financial Remedies