Anybody, who has been through the family law legal system and who has been the subject of a section 47 report, will know how critical these reports are. In my view it is absolutely essential that the parties are fully prepared before these meetings as they can have an absolutely critical bearing on the outcome of a case and given that the outcome of a case often means who is going to have custody of a young child or children and exactly what type of access is to take place, then it is absolutely critical that the client is fully prepared and knows exactly what type of questions are going to be asked and what is expected.
Solicitors have an enormously
important role to play in all of this because in my experience clients are attending
section 47 meetings completely unprepared and are then taken aback to see the
importance placed on what the client thought was a relatively unimportant incident
and findings are made, which will almost certainly not be interfered with by a
judge.
As with everything – be prepared.
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