Family judges must justify delaying final decisions
Leona Harrison and Rachael Banks were successfully involved in a recent Appeal in the Court of Appeal that Miss Harrison had advised the Appellants to pursue.
Handing down judgment last week in S-L (Children: Adjournment), Lord Justice Peter Jackson said adjourning a decision ‘is a positive choice that requires proper weighing-up of the advantages and disadvantages and a lively awareness that the passage of time has consequences’.
Read the BAILII case report. The decision was also covered in The Law Society Gazette.
