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section 7 report

noun

C2CEFR level
90/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister

A welfare report prepared for the court on the circumstances of a child in a dispute about their arrangements.

The judge adjourned the hearing until the section 7 report had been filed and served on both parties.

Topic: Family law in Legal English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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