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This week’s edition of the Family weekly highlights includes details of the updated MyHMCTS financial remedy cases guidance. Recent judgments on an...
Private Client analysis: The Court of Appeal allowed the parents’ appeal and appointed them as HB’s health and welfare deputies, rejecting the...
Private Client analysis: The Court of Protection dismissed Camden’s appeal against findings that BW lacked capacity to decide whether to consent to...
Private Client analysis: The Honourable Mr Justice Hayden clarified both the Court of Protection’s role where a complainant may lack capacity 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...
Can the court make an interim child arrangements order?The court may make an interim child arrangements order, namely an order intended to be short-term until determination of any issues in the case at a final hearing, under section 8 of the Children Act 1989.There are various cases where it can be
Where a woman is separated from her husband, but not yet divorced, and she wishes to undertake in vitro fertilisation treatment (using donor sperm), does she require her husband’s consent to do so? Where the husband refuses to sign a form indicating that he does not consent for the purposes of
What is the procedure to withdraw an application made on Form C100?Family Procedure Rules 2010 (FPR 2010), SI 2010/2955, 29.4 provides that any application that relates to the welfare or upbringing of a child or where either of the parties is a protected party may only be withdrawn with the
The no order principleThis Practice Note explains the no order principle contained in section 1(5) of the Children Act 1989 (ChA 1989). It explains when the principle applies in private children proceedings and how the courts have applied it.The no order principleWhen the court is considering
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