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Family Law: Legal Representation

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many family law cases required a qualified legal representative broken down by individual court in the most recent year for which data is available.

answeredMinistry of Justice

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Answering body
Ministry of Justice
Tabled
7 Apr 2025
Target answer date
22 Apr 2025
Answer
28 Apr 2025 · 21 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 7 Apr 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many family law cases required a qualified legal representative broken down by individual court in the most recent year for which data is available.

  2. 22 Apr 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 28 Apr 2025

    Answer published

    Data on the number of family law cases involving cross-examination by litigants in person where there were allegations of abuse is not held centrally and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.Data is not held on the number of qualified legal rep...

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

Later records

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