Elizabeth McGrath KC
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180 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 27 Jul
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The cases you're talking about are obviously complex.
They require the court to
in my view, adopt a measured
Cautious.
in-depth approach, which is very difficult in this system where in a busy court you're a district judge.
uh you're processing I don't know how many of these applications per day.
And I think that what we have to do as advocates and solicitors is advocate for our clients that those cases are treated very differently.
to those which
I think can be dealt with.
fairly and justly under this system.
I think the front loading of the information gathering is.
really good and really effective and where this model is going to help.
To alleviate resources so that they can concentrate on the more complex cases, is where you have parents arguing about things like.
handover times or school holidays or the precise division of care.
Those are the sorts of cases which
have historically taken up far too much of the court time and are amenable to a judge putting a firm boot through and banging heads together and saying, I've got more difficult cases that the court should be concentrating on and committing resources to.
So I think for those decisions it is a good model and long overdue and I see it working on those cases.
I think
The challenge is is those cases.
which the courts got to get in shape in terms of evidence.
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