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No18 Chambers will no longer be utilising the DX service

We would like to inform our clients that we will no longer be in the DX delivery service from the 1st April 2023. Please do not send mail to us via DX after the 31st March July 2023 Please could you kindly amend your records and see our below address...

Following a Consultation the Government has issued revised Guidance on the Domestic Violence Disclosure Scheme which aims to help front-line officers and those who work in the area of public protection apply the Domestic Violence Disclosure Scheme and deals with: checks to be completed a set of minimum standards of information to...

Given changes introduced by The Marriage and Civil Partnership (Minimum Age) Act 2022 the Government has re-issued Guidance on Forced Marriage and Multi-Agency Practice. The new Guidance can be accessed here....

Please click the link below for more information to download the orders please go to our website on Message from Mr Justice Peel: Standard Orders - cross examination and QLR provisions - Courts and Tribunals Judiciary...

The Official Solicitor has published a revised certificate as to capacity to conduct proceedings. The 2023 certificate has just gone live on www.gov.uk. The revisions take into account the approach to assessment identified by the UKSC in A Local Authority (Respondent) v JB [2021] UKSC 52. These are the links: Page: ...

Means free legal aid is being extended for both parents and those with parental responsibilities. Changes to family legal aid start to take effect on 1 March 2023 with an extension of means free legal aid in some public family law cases. A new option for domestic abuse assessments is also being...

Keynote Address: Aspire Conference Exeter (7 February 2023) It is, I suspect, easy for those whose professional lives have started much more recently than mine (which I dare say includes most of this audience!) to assume that we have always understood intellectual impairment as we do now, and that we have...

Amelia King (2016)

Amelia King will be running the Trethowans Salisbury Half-Marathon on 8th October 2023 and the Salisbury Plain Winter Edition Marathon on 2nd December 2023 in aid of Salisbury Hospice Charity. Salisbury Hospice provides specialist palliative care to 1,000 local people with life-limiting conditions. £500 provides one day of care for a...

Barnaby Large (2007)

"In Laranjinha & Ors v Khan I was fortunate to represent two chefs in securing a number of basic workplace rights many of us take for granted. Both were former residents of East Timor and more precisely of Fataluka culture and language. As members of a former Portuguese colony they...

Asher Shane (2010)

Mr Justice Peel has made the following announcement with the authority of the President of the Family Division: "The prohibition of cross examination provisions contained in the Domestic Abuse Act 2021 came into force on 21 July 2022 and apply to all family proceedings commenced after that date. A series...

The case concerned an application by the mother for permission to relocate from the West Country to London and for a Child Arrangements Order. The parties agreed to attend arbitration. Following a two-day hearing, the appointed arbitrator delivered a determination on 12th August 2022 refusing the application to relocate and...

No 18 are delighted to announce that now on our website there are a number of specimen directions and the relevant forms for the QLR scheme when drafting orders where such an advocate is required. Please see attached link to view and download - ...

On Monday 30 January 2023, the Transparency Implementation Group Reporting Pilot will launch in Cardiff, Leeds and Carlisle. The aim of the pilot is to introduce a presumption that accredited media and legal bloggers may report on what they see and hear during family court cases, subject to strict rules...

From 31 January 2023, legal representatives must submit and manage applications for contested financial remedy online using MyHMCTS. There will be a transition period from 1 February to 28 February 2023 during which time HMCTS will process paper applications, until 28 February when they will be returned. Resolution have...

Amelia King (2016)

1. The recent case of Mother v Father [2022] EWHC 3107 (Fam) reminds us of the court’s powers to limit evidence. The case concerned an appeal by a mother against the decision of magistrates who determined neither parent was to be allowed to cross-examine the other at a contested final...

Gary Fawcett (1975)

A’s owned a farm. In 1981, their wills provided for their two sons to inherit the farm equally, subject to their daughter receiving 20% of their estate. R, their eldest son worked on their farm from 1982 for 32 years, for a low wage. The relationship soured between A’s and R, and...

XO v YO [2022] EWFC 114

Gary Fawcett (1975)

Big money - long marriage - H not engaging much after forms E or in final hearing - Conduct - Adverse inference - H had pre-marital wealth. As said before trying to make a bitesize article from any judgement these days is like trying to pour the River Thames into a...

Helen Moizer (2018)

On 6 September 2022, the Court of Appeal agreed to hear an appeal of a claim that both Worcestershire County Council ('WCC') and Birmingham City Council ('BCC') failed to remove a boy (AB) from the care of his mother. Background and High Court decision AB is an adult claimant however he is...

Relaunching the Public Law Outline

The President of the Family Division, Sir Andrew McFarlane, has devoted his latest A View from The President's Chambers to the need for all involved in public law children cases to reconnect with the core principles of the Public Law Outline ['PLO'], as set out in Family Procedure Rules 2010, PD12A. The...

Guidance on E-bundles

The Association of Lawyers for Children has noted that suspension of the requirements of the President's guidance for e-Bundles used in the Family Court and Family Division comes to an end on 31 December 2022. From that date, all e-bundles prepared for use in care proceedings must comply with the guidance...

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