Keehan J condemned ‘the wholesale failure of the parties’ in these care proceedings to comply with case management directions which had been given on a number of occasions over the previous four months, and said: ‘The conduct of the parties in this matter and the wholesale failure to comply with case management directions is lamentable. Family practitioners must wake up to the fact that, whatever the difficulties presented by public funding issues and/or the pressure of work, the court will no longer tolerate the failure of parties to comply timeously with court orders. Those failures simply lead to unacceptable delays in the proceedings which are wholly inimical to the welfare of the children involved.’
Keehan J
[2014] EWHC 63 (Fam)
Bailii
England and Wales
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Cited – In re W (Children) FD 25-Jul-2014
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Children, Litigation Practice
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