Contact Issues in Public & Private Children Law Cases

Introduction

As will often be the case, there will be disputes surrounding the appropriate level, duration, and frequency of contact (family time) during proceedings relating to children. This may well be within private and public children proceedings.

Practitioners need to be clear about the various steps that can be taken, the remedies involved, and the relevant and current law and guidance.

What You Will Learn

This webinar will cover the following:

• Developments in the area surrounding enforcement of child arrangements orders
• Use of warning notices, enforcement orders and financial compensation
• Committal Applications and how to ensure one complies with Part 37 FPR 2010
• Cases involving switch of ‘live with’ arrangements
• Dealing with allegations of domestic abuse, contact and use of PD12J
• Changes brought about to the running of fact-finding hearings and contact following Domestic Abuse Act
• Guidelines for judges meeting children, and implications of Re C
• Making ‘available’ for contact or ‘ensuring’ contact. Which one is it?
• Contact issues in the childcare proceedings
• Application of s.34(1) and s.34(6) CA 1989
• Applications under S.34(3) and s.34(4) CA 1989
• Implications of the decision in Re D-S
• Use of s.26 ACA 2022 and Placement Orders
• Use of S.51A ACA 2002 and post-adoption contact
• Implications of Re B and adoption cases
• President of the Family Division - Adoption in the Modern World - Speech in 2024
• Public law Working Group Recommendation for Best Practice in Adoption - matters relating to contact - November 2024
• Template for future contact following the recent decision in Re R and C (Adoption or Fostering) [2024]

This pre-recorded webinar will be available to view from Friday 29th August 2025

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