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Practice Direction Update no 4 of 2023

Practice Direction Update no 4 of 2023 amends: Practice Direction 36G – Pilot Scheme, Procedure for Using an Online System to Generate Applications in Certain Private Law Proceedings relating to Children; and Practice Direction 36zd – Pilot Scheme: Online System for Certain Private Law Proceedings relating to Children and for Certain Protective...

In December 2022, a House of Lords select committee published a report on the Children and Families Act 2014, which came into force on 13 March 2014. The report concluded that the act was an example of “inadequate implementation” and had “ultimately failed” to “meaningfully improve” the lives of children and young people....

These Rules, which come into force for the most part on 1 October 2023 (certain Rules come into force on 14 August 2023 – see Rule 1): replace Part 14 (admissions) with a revised Part 14, as part of the ongoing exercise of review of the Civil Procedure Rules and related...

Practice Note: The Chancery Guide 2022

The new Chancery Guide was published on 29 July 2022. This Practice Note accompanies the second update published in June 2023. The Chancery Guide is now available online (PDF)with hyperlinks on the Courts and Tribunals Judiciary website. It has been substantially rewritten and revised compared with previous versions of the Chancery Guide...

The President of the Family Division, Sir Andrew McFarlane, has issued Practice Guidance to address some of the practical and procedural aspects of applications under s42 of the Family Law Act 1996, commonly known as Non-Molestation Injunctions. The Practice Guidance, and Annex 1 – a simplified Non-Molestation Order, can be read...

Helen Moizer (2018)

Helen Moizer successfully represented the Claimant in an appeal to the Employment Appeal Tribunal (“EAT”) and was instructed by the Free Representation Unit on a pro bono basis. “The FRU and Ms Moizer, who has appeared pro bono and clearly put many hours into her preparatory work, are to be...

Amelia King (2016)

I can only write about my own experience as a Qualified Legal Representative and the answer to the above is no, not really. The main issue in my experience is that the family court simply cannot secure QLRs for hearings or the required number of QLRs (if the case requires...

The Supreme Court has decided, in Unger and another (in substitution for Hasan) v Ul-Hasan and another [2023] UKSC 22, that when a party to an application under Part III of the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984 dies, further proceedings cannot be taken. Nafisa Hasan (“the wife”) and Mahmud Ul-Hasan (“the husband”)...

The Child Support Collection (Domestic Abuse) Bill received Royal Assent on 29 June 2023 and the bill is now an Act of Parliament. The Act makes provision enabling the making of arrangements for the collection of child support maintenance in cases involving domestic abuse. For the Act, click here....

The Guidance issued on 1 June 2023 by the Family Justice Council and British Psychological Society, entitled “Psychologists as Expert Witnesses in the family courts in England and Wales: Standards, competencies and expectations” has been gaining media attention, including in the Observer. The Guidance has been updated to include additional guidance...

Sir Andrew McFarlane, President of the Family Division, discusses recent family conferences and more in this latest update to read the post in full click onteh attached link A View from The President’s Chambers: July 2023...

Rebecca Caws (2023)

No.18 Chambers is delighted to announce that Rebecca Caws (2023) has accepted an invitation to join Chambers. Rebecca is currently a legal executive and transfers to chambers and is able to accept instructions from 9 August 2023. Rebecca transferred to the Bar in 2023 from her role as a Chartered Legal Executive...

Nigel Cholerton (2007), Helen Moizer (2018)

Facts: This case concerned financial remedy proceedings involving modest financial resources. This was a nuanced case and the difficulty was that the husband refused to engage. The issues turned on non-compliance and how that relations to conduct under section 25(g) of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973. The applicant wife, a part-time teacher,...

Helen Moizer (2018)

We are proud that our second six pupil, Helen Moizer, is taking part in the PupilPledge with Advocate! We encourage fellow pupils to commit to one piece of probono in your second six. This helps provide AccessToJustice for all. Pledge today >>> bit.ly/ProBonoPledge25...

Helen Moizer (2018)

The Master of the Rolls, Sir Geoffrey Vos, recently gave a lecture for the Law and Technology conference on 14th June 2023 exploring the effect that generative AI is already having, and is likely to have, on legal services and courts. The speech began with a story about a New York...

Nigel Cholerton (2007)

Facts This was an application by QQ for an adoption order in respect of his stepdaughter ‘Esmarelda’ who was 18 years and 6 months at the time of the hearing. The application was made before her 18th birthday. This adoption application was supported by Esmarelda’s mother, by Esmarelda herself, by the children’s...

This report from the Financial Remedies Court (FRC) Sub-Group of the Transparency Implementation Group covers a wide range of issues concerning Transparency within FRC work. The group was chaired by His Honour Judge Stuart Farquhar and included all levels of first instance judiciary, solicitors, barristers, a legal blogger and a...

The Senior President of Tribunals, Sir Keith Lindblom, is grateful to those who have taken the time to respond to the consultation paper on panel composition in the Employment Tribunals and the Employment Appeal Tribunal, which was published on 30 January 2023. Because the consultation was issued in anticipation of powers being delegated...

At the request of the Master of the Rolls, a new Civil Justice Council (CJC) working group, led by Lord Justice Birss, was set up in April 2022 to consider four aspects of the civil costs regime. The group was tasked to review and make recommendations related to: Guideline hourly rates Costs...

On 18 January 2022, Mostyn J, the judge then in charge of Standard Family Orders (“SFOs”), announced a wide ranging review of the SFOs. He continued the review after succeeding him on 26 April 2022. HHJ Hess was appointed to lead the review of the financial remedy SFOs. HHJ Moradifar...

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