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David Burrows considers the courts’ power to order or encourage parties to attempt non-court dispute resolution or mediation. … Continue reading
This was the question discussed last month, at a panel discussion held in the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies under the heading “Technology, Transparency and Criminal Justice”.… Continue reading
In the third of a series considering recent civil practice and procedure cases in the context of family law, David Burrows focuses on the ratio decidendi and what is sufficient to found an appeal… Continue reading
David Burrows returns to the topic of precedent and the importance of consistency, at least by a judge with their own previous decisions. … Continue reading
Continuing our series considering recent civil practice and procedure cases in the context of family law… Continue reading
David Burrows considers recent civil practice and procedure cases in the context of family law… Continue reading
David Burrows considers the position of non-parties such as journalists or lay observers in attending, making sense of, and reporting on family courts appeals.… Continue reading
In this guest post by Frank Cranmer, reposted from the Law & Religion UK blog, we are reminded of the key differences between the two separate but oft-confused pan-European legal regimes. … Continue reading
David Burrows on the conventional respect shown by judges towards each others’ decisions, even when not strictly bound by the rules of precedent, and how it applies in particular to the subject of anonymity in family cases. … Continue reading
Recalling his own experiences as a young lawyer, David Burrows looks at the different approaches on either side of the Atlantic to the preliminary hearings in criminal cases that test the strength of a prosecution and assess its fitness for trial. … Continue reading