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When parents split up, it’s often the children who suffer most. But over the past three years or so, family judges have quietly developed an entirely new way of focusing on the most vulnerable members of a family. Rather than being litigant-led, it’s child-led.

To find out how the Pathfinder scheme works — and why it’s not available in large parts of England — I dropped in yesterday to interview the most senior family judge in England and Wales.

For the latest episode of A Lawyer Talks, Sir Andrew McFarlane, president of the High Court family division, told me about what he and his fellow judges regard as the future of private family law.

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