‘Legal aid cuts have left working with the country’s most vulnerable in the family courts impossibly difficult’

Sir James Munby may face the Justice Select Committee after he called for a ban on cross-examination of vulnerable people in family proceedings.

An investigation by The Guardian last month revealed that women were often cross-examined by violent ex-partners in secretive court hearings. In a statement released a few days later, the president of the...

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