Date: Tuesday 30 March 2021

Time: 1500 – 1630

Speaker: HHJ Simmonds

Venue: Online via Zoom

HHJ Simmonds former solicitor and member of the children panel – appointed as a DJ in 2010 as a DJ of the principal registry of the family division and transferred to the western circuit in November 2015. At the PRFD he undertook all forms of family work to include complex children and money.

Topics will include:

1. A legal update – children and money
2. A quick look at reform – where are we ?
3. Findings of fact and domestic abuse (at the time of preparing this note a judgment is due shortly from the President and this slot will be used to discuss any guidance given)