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This week’s edition of the Family weekly highlights includes details of an update to the final consent order submission route in the HMCTS online...
His Majesty, King Charles III, has approved the appointment of Lord Briggs of Westbourne as the next President of the UK Supreme Court. The...
This week’s edition of the Family weekly highlights includes details of the national roll out of domestic abuse protection notices and domestic abuse...
The Law Commission consultation on provisional proposals to reform the legal framework for kinship care in England and Wales has been updated to...
Procedure—Schedule 1 to the Children Act 1989This Practice Note sets out the procedural requirements in relation to an application under Schedule 1 to...
Applications under the Protection from Harassment Act 1997This Practice Note explains the six criminal offences that may be committed under the...
Striking out a statement of caseThis Practice Note explains the court's power to strike out a statement of case. It summarises the grounds on which a...
The grounds on which a marriage is voidA void marriage is one that will be treated by the court as never having taken place. The grounds on which a...
Does a non-molestation order or equivalent undertaking appear on a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check, police check or criminal record? Does such an order or undertaking appear on advanced DBS checks and will it be listed as an offence if a non-molestation order is breached?Does a
Procedural guide—Protection from Harassment Act 1997 (civil remedy)The Protection from Harassment Act 1997 (PHA 1997) makes it an offence to pursue a course of conduct that amounts to harassment and creates a civil tort allowing for a claim for damages and ancillary injunctions. The High Court and
Can the court refuse an applicant’s request to withdraw an application for a non-molestation order where the application has not been served on the respondent and no orders have yet been made?The Family Procedure Rules 2010 (FPR 2010), SI 2010/2955, 29.4(1) provides that any application in
Freezing orders (Mareva)—family proceedingsA freezing order (formerly termed a Mareva injunction or order) is an interim injunction restraining a party from disposing or dealing with assets under the inherent jurisdiction of the High Court or the Family Court (by section 31E of the Matrimonial and
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