Communicourt announced as a category sponsor at the Yorkshire Legal Awards 2024
Communicourt is the sponsor for the Criminal Law category in this year’s Yorkshire Legal Awards. The Awards is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year and the awards ceremony will be held in Leeds in October. Nominations have now opened for the awards and the deadline for submissions is 19 July. ... Continue reading
Intermediary case law update: Mrs Justice Lieven [2024] EWHC 79 (Fam)
In January 2024, a new High Court Judgment from Mrs Justice Lieven was published, including guidance on intermediary use in family proceedings (West Northamptonshire Council v KA & Ors [2024]). The case concerned a mother who required a deaf intermediary (a highly specialised service performed by precious few professionals currently working... Continue reading
National business award for Communicourt
Communicourt has been handed the silver award for Positive Impact in the SME National Business Awards. The Positive Impact Award is for businesses who innovate and adapt to thrive and benefit the wider community. The awards ceremony took place on Friday 1 December at Wembley Stadium. Communicourt was recognised for... Continue reading
Reflections from the Access to Justice Conference 2023
This month we hosted Communicourt’s first ever conference. Held in partnership with UK legal reform charity JUSTICE, the Access to Justice Conference 2023 took place in Leeds and online, with attendees including legal practitioners, law students, clinical psychologists, ISVAs (independent sexual violence advisors) and representatives from many other connected professions.... Continue reading
DLD Day: A hidden difficulty in legal proceedings
20th October 2023 marks Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) Day. The importance of this event is not to be underestimated. DLD is one of the least known speech, language and communication difficulties, but a condition which affects approximately 7.6% of all children (amounting to around 1 million children in the UK).... Continue reading
Understanding Selective Mutism & adapting legal proceedings
October is Selective Mutism Awareness Month. This month, we published a new edition of the Accessing Justice Podcast. In the latest episode, intermediary, Demi, interviews speech & language therapist Susannah Thomson about all things Selective Mutism (including the fantastic work of SMIRA, the Selective Mustism Information & Research Association). Demi... Continue reading
My Intermediary Journey: Georgia and speaking English as a second language
Hello, everyone! I’m Georgia, and I've been working as an intermediary at Communicourt for the past year and a half. I was born and grew up in Greece and moved to the UK over five years ago for my post-graduate studies. English is my second language, and I must admit... Continue reading
Bite-sized ‘take homes’ from the Vulnerable Accused Conference
This month, members of the Communicourt team attended the Vulnerable Accused Conference at the University of Birmingham, attended by academics from a range of backgrounds (including law, criminology and speech and language therapy). Over the two-day event, speakers presented their research on a range of topics relevant to the intermediary role... Continue reading
Rebecca Volunteers at Newday Christian Youth Festival
A big well done to intermediary, Rebecca, for her (almost certainly exhausting!) work as a Youth Leader at Newday Christian Youth Festival. Each year, Communicourt staff can take up to two paid volunteering days to support causes they are passionate about. Here's what she got up to... "This summer, I... Continue reading
