This Practice Note provides guidance on the requirements for permission to adduce expert evidence and restrictions on expert evidence, together with...
A Calderbank offer is a settlement offer marked ‘without prejudice save as to costs’. Whether a Calderbank offer is admissible, and what weight will be given to it, will...
Background The Family Procedure Rules 2010, SI 2010/2955 (FPR 2010) do not contain a procedure for inspection (formerly production) appointments, as...
Requirements The obligation on a party to provide full, frank, and clear, disclosure of all material facts, documents and information relevant to the case, and the...
This Practice Note deals with evidence in public children proceedings including admissibility, credibility, competence and compellability. It also details the provisions...
In relation to preparation for a final hearing generally see Practice Note: Preparation for the final hearing of an application for a financial remedy. For...
This Practice Note deals with adducing expert evidence in private law children proceedings including the statutory provisions (in particular Part 25 of the Family...
This Practice Note deals with expert evidence in public law children proceedings, including in care and adoption proceedings. It details the relevant statutory provisions...
This Practice Note provides guidance on the joint instruction of a single expert witness in financial proceedings under the Family Procedure Rules 2010 (FPR 2010), SI...
The Family Procedure Rules 2010 (FPR 2010) set out the universal practice for hearings in the Family Court and the Family Division of the High Court in FPR...
In financial proceedings there is an ongoing duty to provide full, frank, and clear disclosure. Such disclosure includes all material facts, documents and...
There is an ongoing duty of full and frank disclosure in financial proceedings. Such disclosure includes all material facts, documents and other information...
Practitioners dealing with care proceedings where there are concurrent or imminent criminal proceedings need to be prepared to deal with a number of issues,...
Under section 37 of the Children Act 1989 (ChA 1989), the court has the power to order an investigation by a local authority into the welfare of a child if it appears...
Under section 7 of the Children Act 1989 (ChA 1989), a report (often referred to as a section 7 report) may be directed when a court is considering any...
Under Part III of the Family Law Reform Act 1969 (FLRA 1969), in civil proceedings in which the parentage of any person falls to be determined, the court may...
This Practice Note is impacted by the decision of the UK on 23 June 2016 to leave the EU. This has implications for practitioners, inter alia, when...
This Practice Note is impacted by the decision of the UK on 23 June 2016 to leave the EU. This has implications for practitioners when considering an...
General principles There is an ongoing duty to provide full, frank, and clear, disclosure in financial proceedings. Such disclosure includes all material facts, documents...
Rationale for valuation In any financial remedy application, some valuation of all relevant assets and liabilities needs to be obtained. A failure to do so may be...
This Practice Note is impacted by the decision of the UK on 23 June 2016 to leave the EU and sets out the current position on vulnerable persons in family proceedings....