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Early neutral evaluation
This arises when a senior lawyer, solicitor or barrister or judge, gives a view on what is likely to be the final outcome of a case if it were to be decided at court. One example of in court ENE is the financial dispute resolution hearing. Out-of-court ENE occurs from time to time when two lawyers representing their clients struggle to settle because of differences over matters of law, outcome, practice or procedure. Whilst these matters could be the subject of an application to the court, some prefer the more informal approach of instructing a senior family lawyer to give an opinion.
iFLG is well placed to provide this out-of-court early neutral evaluation on complex issues of finance and children matters including those with an international dimension.
The directive ADR working party of resolution/SFLA has just recommended more referral to early neutral evaluation as a means in some cases of removing the stumbling block from getting to a settlement. On our information pages is that the report, referring to early neutral evaluation in more detail. Please contact us about terms and how we can be of assistance.
