Family weekly highlights—13 February 2025
This week's edition of Family weekly highlights includes changes announced by HMCTS to the Form C110a application journey in the family public law portal, the addition of the ability for a solicitor to remove themselves as representing a party in divorce applications and updates to the upload draft order process in contested financial remedies applications. Analysis of the Supreme Court decision on habeas corpus in care proceedings and analysis of the acquisition of parental responsibility by non-biological fathers are set out. A recent judgment on whether non-attending journalists are permitted to access court documents provided to attending journalists in financial remedy proceedings is also considered.