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Amendments to Family Procedure Rules

Amendments to paragraph 1.4 and 11.1 of Practice Direction 36N, to add provision for a legal representative of a respondent to use the online system for contested financial remedy applications and remove references to Maintenance Pending Suit applications, came into force on 18 December 2020. The remainder of the amendments come...

CPR Amendments – 21st DECEMBER 2020 Update 126th Practice Direction Update to the Civil Procedure Rules (BREXIT) The Master of the Rolls and the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State have signed the 126th Practice Direction (PD) Update. The 126th PD Update click here, PD Update (the 107th) which makes amendments to various PDs in...

A working group of the Civil Justice Council, chaired by Nicola Critchley, has concluded its work on low value personal injury claims and today publishes its final report. The group’s chair, Nicola Critchley said: “I am grateful for the hard work that has gone into the preparation of this comprehensive report...

Cafcass has issued a statement in relation to the latest covid restrictions . Click here to read in full....

The Lord Chief Justice has issued a statement in relation to the latest covid restrictions . It can be read in full as below; ‘We have now entered lockdown for the third time. The courts and tribunals must continue to function. The position remains that attendance in person where necessary is...

The President of the Family Division, Sir Andrew McFarlane, has just released the updated document: The Family Court and COVID-19 – the Road Ahead 2021- click here for more information...

Theo Huckle KC (1985 | KC: 2011)

No.18 Chambers is delighted to announce that leading Complex Injury silk Theo Huckle QC (Call 1985; QC 2011) has accepted an invitation to join Chambers. Theo specialises in Complex and Catastrophic Personal Injury, Clinical Negligence, Industrial Disease and Product Liability work. For full details of his background and practice, see...

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Laura Baines (2007)

The appeal arises from a fact-finding hearing within care proceedings. In terms of background the main issue in the proceedings was how A (a girl then aged 2) came by a subgaleal haematoma (bleeding between the scalp and the skull). The local authority alleged that it was an injury inflicted by...

On 12 November 2019 the Office of the President of the Family Division issued on my behalf new Practice Guidance to explain the registration and regulation structure applicable in England and, separately, in Wales for residential care facilities for children and young people: Practice Guidance: Placements in unregistered children’s homes...

Gary Fawcett (1975)

In this case Mostyn J robustly clarifies an area of law that had become bogged down and confusing for many years. The brief facts are the court made a financial remedy order in 2010 reflecting in its recital a broadly equal division of capital, which included a property portfolio after a...

Laura Baines (2007)

This was a judgment handed down by MacDonald J following a Fact-Finding Hearing to consider how S suffered a hypoxic head injury when nearly 3 months old in early June 2019. The judgment was a long and detailed one and full reading is recommended. However, a summary is set out...

Ministry of Justice Statistics set out the impact of Covid-19 on family court activity The latest statistics show the substantial effect Covid-19 has had on family court activity between April and June 2020. For example, the number of domestic violence remedy order applications increased by 24% compared to the same...

Laura Baines (2007)

In summary the Court of Appeal dismissed the appeal from a decision placing the father and a family friend in the pool of potential perpetrators of non-accidental injuries to the child. This was an appeal from findings of fact that were made at a rehearing of care proceedings. When an application is...

No18 Chambers Christmas Appeal

We know it’s a challenging time for everyone at the moment as the coronavirus pandemic continues to unfold. The lives of hundreds of people in our area have been disrupted and are now experiencing job insecurity, illness and isolation. Food banks who are the grassroots community organisations aimed at supporting...

The Master of the Rolls and the Courts Minister have signed the 125th Practice Direction Update to provide for further functionalities within the Online Civil Money Claims (OCMC) Pilot, PD51R. The PD is effective immediately i.e. from 11am, 16th November 2020. The pilot PD 51R currently runs until 30 November 2021. The...

A report by the Family Solutions Group, entitled What about me?: Reframing Support for Families following Parental Separation, has been published. President of the Family Division, Sir Andrew McFarlane, said: “This report brings together the various lines of thinking of recent years aimed at finding a better way to achieve...

T and J (Children) [2020] EWCA Civ 1344

Laura Baines (2007)

This was an appeal brought by a mother against findings made in care proceedings concerning her two sons, T now aged rising 7 and J now 4. On 1st July 2018 J was admitted to hospital with a range of injuries including bruises to his forehead, face, ear, chest, abdomen and...

Sarah Barber (2018)

That’s right, the case of A (A Child) [2020] EWCA Civ 1230 is a case concerning a fairly rare factual matrix where it was alleged that the father of A had poisoned the child’s maternal grandparents and the child’s mother. The private law proceedings in respect of the Father’s contact with...

Laura Baines (2007)

In 2018 the Mother commenced proceedings under Schedule 1 to the Children Act 1989. The parties agreed a consent order concluding those proceedings on 11th December 2018. In summary the order recorded the parties’ agreement that the Father would make a housing fund of £2.75 million available for the purchase...

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