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Family weekly highlights—8 December 2022

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Published on: 08 December 2022

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Table of contents

Practice and procedure
President of the Family Division announces reporting pilot in three areas
Family Procedure Rule Committee publishes annual report
Courts and Tribunals Judiciary publishes guidance on modes of address in courts and tribunals
HMCTS publishes updated operational summary for week commencing 5 December 2022
Public children
HMCTS issues guides for local authorities on family public law order applications
Enforcement
Contempt (His Majesty's Attorney General v Dowie)
Court of protection

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Article summary

This week's edition of Family weekly highlights includes details of a new reporting pilot in three designated family judge areas in England and Wales (Cardiff, Leeds and Carlisle), new guidance on changes to modes of address in courts and tribunals and new HMCTS service guides for local authorities or their solicitors using MyHMCTS to make a family public law order application. Consideration is also given to the appropriate ambit of a reporting restriction order in Court of Protection proceedings.

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