DR Corner
DR Corner: Thinking Outside the Box – Two Different Forms of NCDR
On a number of occasions when sitting, Stephen heard Dr Freda Gardner, Consultant Clinical Psychologist, say in evidence as an expert witness: ‘the issues in this family should never have developed to a point where this litigation became necessary’. Then, one day, they met outside the court environment, and he asked her how she thought that issues in complex family cases might be resolved better.
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- Working Together
- Psychologist
- NCDR
- DR Corner
- Settlement Meetings
!30/06/2025 06:00
DR Corner: Is NCDR Appropriate in Financial Remedy Cases where there is Domestic Abuse?
In October 2024, a Resolution multi-disciplinary working party published a report, Domestic abuse in financial remedy proceedings. Described as a ‘groundbreaking’ consideration of the interplay between domestic abuse and the treatment of finances on separation and divorce, this 18-month project is a powerful call for change.
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- Domestic Abuse
- NCDR
- DR Corner
!18/03/2025 06:00
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.
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- DR Corner
!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
!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.
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- Mediation
- DR Corner
!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.
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- DR Corner
!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.
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- Journal
- Out of Court Dispute Resolution Options
- DR Corner
- Book Review
- Alternative Dispute Resolution
!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
!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,…
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- Author
- DR Corner
- Book Review
!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 …
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- DR Corner
!06/07/2022 07:13
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