Pro Bono Week | Cases of Conflict with Dads House Family Law Clinic & Our Family Wizard

Dads House Family Law Clinic and Our Family Wizard’s Pro Bono Week Panel Event.

Cases of Conflict – Do shared lives with orders and the court approved parenting app help parents experience justice in the family court?

This event will focus on family, private child jurisdiction, with a focus on why shared lives with orders reduce conflict within Section 8 Children Act 1989 proceedings.

After the main discussion there will be a Q&A session for attendees, then networking.

The key themes of pro bono week below are below:

1. Barred from justice – the powerful, everyday stories of the impact of lawyers and law students who give their time to protect the rights of those most disadvantaged in society.

2. Embedding pro bono in your organisation and career – placing pro bono at the heart of everyone’s practice and hearing from those at the forefront of establishing business structures for pro bono within law firms, chambers, in house, universities and charities.

3. How technology can enhance access to justice – existing and new tools to ensure pro bono is innovative and effective.

This panel event is being held during pro bono week, featuring Dads House Family Law Clinic. Highlighting the need to future lawyers to do pro bono work within the current family jurisdiction where we do have legal aid. It is worth noting that this response addresses the second theme of pro bono week. This event will focus on the family, private child jurisdiction, with a focus on why shared lives with orders reduce conflict within Section 8 Children Act 1989 proceedings. This event will be addressing the nexus between the issues of father’s being barred from justice and how shared lives with orders can address this issue and injustice.

Another question considered is whether parenting apps, specifically Our Family Wizard a court recommended parenting app, reduce conflict within private child matters and assist the court both in reducing the burden on the courts and promote the rule of law. In this case, the paramountcy and best interests of the child within Child Act 1989.

This event will also discuss how the power of pro bono will help you develop your career. This can be discussed within the context of Dads House Family Law Clinic and how in person clinics where students attend learn client skills, case management, conferences skills and understand the law in practice from highly expert practitioners both solicitors and barristers.

Student members (including transferring lawyers) must attend all elements of the event in order to be awarded the Qualifying Session. This includes any lecture/talk/reception/dinner/speeches.

Members of the Inn only

Click here to see details of the QS Requirements and how to be credited with the QS for this session

Learning Aims

After this session, students should be able to:

• Recognise high conflict cases in section 8 proceedings under the Children Act 1989 within the family private child jurisdiction.

• Describe how father’s are barred from justice, to some extent, within proceedings; and

• Discuss technology assist within the private child jurisdiction;

• Examine volunteering can develop your career.

Links to the Professional Statement, wider workings of the Bar, administration of justice or a public interest matter

The QS will align with these elements of the professional statement:

1.5

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