DR Corner: Early Reflections on Pre-Application Protocol – Seismic Shift or Damp Squib?

When the combined wisdom of a thousand cases leads to the identification of a particular problem, what are family judges to do about it? Publishing a judgment provides the most obvious and immediate answer. But often such pleas resemble the proverbial pebble dropped into the bottomless well.

• Journal

• DR Corner

• Harry Gates
• Samantha Woodham

!22/11/2024 06:00

DR Corner: Introducing Assent: Combining Arbitration and Private FDRs in a Streamlined Process based on the FPR Directions

Anyone who has tried to arrange a Private Financial Dispute Resolution (pFDR) will be familiar with that sinking feeling when the process is slipping away. It starts with a low-level dispute over the judge, the date or the location of the hearing. Then a seemingly innocuous question about disclosure…

• FDRs
• Mediation
• arbitration
• divorce
• DR Corner
• Costs
• Financial Remedies
• Private FDR
• Alternative Dispute Resolution

• Zoë Bloom

!01/07/2024 07:00

DR Corner: Fair Shares – Mediation Under the Microscope

1 November 2023 saw the launch of the Fair Shares report, which presents the results of the first fully representative study of the arrangements families make on separation and divorce.

• Journal

• Mediation
• DR Corner

• Joanne Edwards
• Polly Calver

!13/03/2024 07:00

DR Corner: FPR Part 3 – Out-of-Court Dispute Resolution Options – Perils and Possibilities

Opportunities for resolution away from the court have never been greater – mediation, early neutral evaluation, private FDRs, arbitration – and practitioners continue to take up training in these disciplines. However, although the use of out-of-court resolution continues to increase, too many cases remain within the overburdened court system, cases for which non-court dispute resolution may be suitable.

• Journal

• DR Corner

• Karen Barham

!21/11/2023 07:00

DR Corner: Review of Do It Out of Court – A Practical Guide to Dispute Resolution Processes in Family Law

A review of the book by Karin Walker, from Law Brief Publishing (2023). This is a concise and informative book aimed at family law practitioners with little or no experience in out-of-court dispute resolution methods.

• Journal

• Journal
• Out of Court Dispute Resolution Options
• DR Corner
• Book Review
• Alternative Dispute Resolution

• DJ Deborah Dinan-Hayward

!03/07/2023 08:00

DR Corner: The Drive for Gender Diversity in Private FDRs

Pressures on court time and the increasing use of remote courts over the COVID-19 pandemic have led to the increasing popularity and success of Private FDRs within (and instead of) financial remedy proceedings within the last 5 years.A Private FDR is a &l…

• Journal

• FDRs
• Unconscious Bias
• arbitration
• divorce
• Financial Remedies Court (FRC)
• Diversity
• DR Corner
• Financial Remedies
• Private FDR
• Efficient Conduct
• Alternative Dispute Resolution
• First Appointments

• Sarah Green

!27/03/2023 09:50

DR Corner: Book review of (Almost) Anything But the Family Court

Earlier this year, my good friends at Only Mums and Only Dads, Rebecca Giraud and Bob Greig, with a stellar author in the ever-fabulous Jo O’Sullivan, launched (Almost) Anything But Family Court at the Resolution national conference. The President,…

• Journal
• Author

• DR Corner
• Book Review

• Joanne Edwards

!17/10/2022 10:45

DR Corner: Mediation in the Wake of WL v HL – Low-Hanging Fruit or Golden Opportunity?

Traditional perceptions of mediation: ‘[M]ediated cases are self-evidently the easiest to settle; the low fruit of the dispute resolution world. Quite rightly this will always remain so. But my nagging concern about the mediation process remains; that …

• Journal

• DR Corner

• Edward Cooke

!06/07/2022 07:13