Elizabeth McGrath KC
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I think there needs to be more clarity on how cases will be triaged and what factors will be taken into consideration when determining whether a case is fit for a decision hearing or needs to go down the adjudication path.
And if the adjudication part, what that should mean in practice, I think the more guidance we have on the particularities, the better the system will function.
Hello and thank you for v inviting me to join the podcast.
It's a first for me.
I'm uh Liz McGrath Casey, a family law practitioner.
I'm head of chambers at three paper buildings, but I'm based in Birmingham.
where the Pathfinder was piloted in May of twenty twenty-four and officially transitioned from Pathfinder to Child Focused Court at the end of May of this year.
Well, I don't think we have to ditch the law we've been applying to private law cases.
It's still reliable.
The framework for
How the court deals with section eight applications is well established and familiar to everyone who's listening.
These are welfare decisions to be determined applying the welfare checklist.
What the Practice Direction 36Z does is provides a
Procedural framework.
Which as Angela says is aimed at delivering outcomes more quickly with fewer hearings.
an aim which I think all practitioners support generally.
I'm going to be talking in particular about my experience and those of colleagues of how the model deals with more complex cases.
Those, for example, where there are allegations of serious domestic abuse.
The prevalence of which everyone will know, has led researchers to describe it as the everyday business of the family court.
We've got, of course, the statutory framework of the Domestic Abuse Act of twenty one.
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