This Practice Direction supplementing the Family Procedure Rules 2010 is made by the President of the Family Division under the powers delegated to   him by the Lord Chief Justice under Schedule 2, Part 1 paragraph 2(2) of the Constitutional Reform Act 2005. and is approved by the...

The Practice Direction below is made by the President of the Family Division under the powers delegated to him by the Lord Chief Justice under Schedule 2, Part 1, paragraph 2(2) of the Constitutional Reform Act 2005, and is approved by Bridget Prentice, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, by...

    Practice Guidance: McKenzie Friends (Civil and Family Courts) 1) This Guidance applies to civil and family proceedings in the Court of Appeal (Civil Division), the High Court of Justice, the County Courts and the Family Proceedings Court in the Magistrates’ Courts. 1 It...

   in Re K (Children) [2011] EWCA Civ 793 on 7 July 2011.  It was a welcome opportunity to consider the application of Payne v Payne [2001] EWCA Civ 166 in international relocation cases following criticism of the authority both at home and abroad.  What followed was the...

After a Section 91(14) has been granted, a person would need to gain permission to bring action to court. In this case, an application would be made to a court for the order to be lifted. This would be tested against a number of criteria to determine the outcome of the permission...

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  F (Children) [2010] EWCA Civ 1428 Consideration of the test to be applied for ‘internal relocation’, ie cases where the primary carer wishes to relocate within the United Kingdom. The mother sought permission to relocate the four children aged 14, 12, 11 and 9 from Cleveland to the...

      The President of the Family Division has reissued the Practic Direction on Domestic Violence in the light of Re B (Children) [2008] UKHL 35, to clarify that a fact-finding hearing is part of the process of trying a case and is not a separate exercise. The amendments serve to...

      The Principal Registry of the Family Division Representation of Children in family proceedings President's Direction Pursuant to rule 9.5 of the Family Proceedings Rules The proper conduct and disposal of proceedings concerning a child which are not specified proceedings...

    Appeal to allow independent representation of children under r 9.2A of the FPR 1991 Case No: B4/2005/0558 Neutral Citation Number: [2005] EWCA Civ 634 IN THE SUPREME COURT OF JUDICATURE COURT OF APPEAL (CIVIL DIVISION) ON APPEAL FROM SALISBURY COUNTY COURT HIS HONOUR JUDGE...