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Family analysis: In this first-instance judgment, Mr Justice Peel considered issues of needs, sharing, non-disclosure and high-impact financial...
Local Government analysis: The government has recently published the consultation on the draft MCA code, including the liberty protection safeguards....
Family analysis: During a case management hearing Mrs Justice Knowles made decisions in respect of the use of intimate images in private children act...
Family analysis: In Xanthopoulos, the court was concerned with different but connected costs issues, which were referred to in the judgment in...
Family analysis: This was an appeal by a father against a decision refusing his application for costs in relation to three hearings. The...
The Financial Remedies CourtCoronavirus (COVID-19): Guidance has been issued, including by the President of the Family Division, regarding all...
Transparency in the family courtsTransparency in the family courts is currently subject to a wide-ranging review following a consultation and report...
Public children—emergency protection ordersGeneral criteriaAn emergency protection order (EPO) is a court order to be made in an emergency where it...
Remote and hybrid hearings in the Family CourtThis Practice Note provides guidance on remote and hybrid hearings, via video-conference and telephone,...
Emergency prohibited steps and child arrangements ordersThis Practice Note sets out the procedure in regular circumstances, prior to the pandemic, and...
Civil partnership—client guide (post-DDSA 2020)This document provides general guidance regarding civil partnership dissolution procedure. Your family...
Divorce (same–sex marriage)—client guide (post-DDSA 2020)This document provides general guidance regarding divorce procedure. Your family lawyer will...
Change of name deed (adult)From: [insert full previous name of the person executing the deed]To: [insert full new name of the person executing the...
Pre-nuptial or pre-partnership agreementThis Agreement is made [insert day and month] 20[insert year]Parties1[Insert name] of [insert full address]...
Change of name deed (child)From: [insert child's previous forename and surname]To: [insert child's new forename and surname]This change of name Deed...
Notice of actingCase number [insert number][In the principal registryORIn the [insert court location] FAMILY court]Sitting at [insert place]Notice of...
Void and voidable marriagesThe Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 (MCA 1973) sets out the grounds on which a marriage is void or voidable and the bars...
The duty of disclosure in financial proceedingsThis Practice Note provides guidance on the ongoing duty of full and frank disclosure in financial...
Permission to apply for a section 8 orderCoronavirus (COVID-19): Guidance has been issued, including by the President of the Family Division,...
Client care—family lawClient care is about providing a proper standard of service to clients. This Practice Note sets out the Solicitors Regulation...
Sears Tooth agreementsThe Family Procedure Rules 2010, SI 2010/2955, 1.1 sets out the overriding objective, including that dealing with a case justly...
Restriction on further applications under the Children Act 1989—section 91(14) ordersRestriction on further applicationsSection 91(14) of the Children...
Change of solicitor in family proceedingsThis Practice Note considers when a solicitor will be on the court record as acting for a party and the...
Statements of truth in family proceedingsDocuments that must be verified by a statement of truth in family proceedingsThe provisions regarding...
Functions which may be carried out by a justices’ legal adviserThis Practice Note sets out the functions of the Family Court, or a judge of the Family...
Financial clean break orders in family proceedingsDuty of the court to consider a clean breakAlthough there is no presumption in favour of there being...
1996 Hague Convention—general principlesThis Practice Note deals with matters relating to jurisdiction, applicable law, transfers between contracting...
Staying proceedings under the inherent jurisdiction31 December 2020 marked the end of the Brexit transition/implementation period entered into...
(1) legal safeguard put in place to protect bondholder's interests
(2) underlying promise of the employer to pay contributions to a pension scheme
A company is dormant when it has no significant accounting transaction.
Matters requiring proof must be established to the appropriate standard, namely either on the balance of probabilities or beyond reasonable doubt.
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