- Intermediate *6 hours CPD
The lawyers who act for the Local Authority and the Guardian ad Litem are likely to have years of specialist experience; the parents' Solicitor may be a far more general practitioner and feel unnecessarily disadvantaged.
This course examines the entire process including:
- The Case Conference
- Emergency Protection Orders and other urgent remedies
- Part VI Family Law Act in Care Cases
- The Care application, the 'threshold criteria' and standards of proof
- Comprehensive assessment, Risk assessment and residential assessment
- Use of experts
- The final hearing; Care Order, Supervision Order or neither
- Contact with children in care
- Adoption and placement for adoption
- Enhancement of claims for costs