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Watch the recording of the webinar 'Contempt of Court - All Change?', first broadcast on Wednesday 16th June 2021, with Sir Jonathan Cohen and Nicholas Allen QC.

For Part 7 of this series, we hear from Sir Paul Coleridge. Sir Paul is a a retired High Court judge, a mediator and private FDR judge. At the time of the Ancillary Relief Scheme, he was a QC.

This 30th edition celebrates the President’s announcement of 24 February 2021 whereby he formally recognised the Financial Remedies Courts as a permanent, established part of the Family Court. It also marks the Silver Jubilee of the then ground-breaking new ancillary relief procedure rolled out in 27 courts as a pilot scheme on 1 October 1996: see the Practice Direction of 25 July 1996 [1996] 2 FLR 368.

For Part 6 of this series, we hear from Rebecca Bailey-Harris, a barrister at 1 Hare Court and Bencher of the Inner temple. At the time of the Ancillary Relief Scheme, Rebecca was Professor of Law at the University of Bristol. She joined the Ancillary Relief Advisory Group in July 1995.