This week's edition of Family weekly highlights includes details of updated MIAMs guidance from the Family Justice Council, questions and responses from the Family Justice Council open meeting in July 2024 and the response to the consultation on revision of the Supreme Court Rules. Questions and responses from the Suspected Inflicted Head Injury Service (SIHIS) information session are set out, together with a decision from the Court of Appeal considering the options of adoption or fostering.

This week's edition of Family weekly highlights includes consideration of the use of human rights law in reading down adoption legislation and proprietary estoppel after an informal Islamic divorce settlement. The clarification of issues procedure in public children proceedings is also set out, together with the response from the Ministry of Justice to its consultation on reforming fees in the Supreme Court and details of the Family Justice Council’s 16th annual debate.

This week's edition of the Family weekly highlights includes a reminder that the President of the Family Division’s non-molestation orders guidance and Family Justice Council guidance came into effect on 12 January 2026. The announcement by the Master of the Rolls of his retirement and the sad news of the passing of the Rt Hon Sir James Munby are detailed. Recent judgments on an application for a declaration of non-parentage and an application for a summary return order are also considered.

This week’s edition of Family weekly highlights includes details of the Family Justice Council’s 11th open meeting and the Registration of Marriages and Civil Partnerships (Registration Provisions) (Amendment) Regulations 2025, SI 2025/569. The Court of Appeal’s analysis of findings made by the Family Court in the course of proceedings in which the father sought an order for the return of his child to Egypt is considered. Recent judgments, including parental orders, extension of a transparency order and costs in private law children cases are included.

This week's edition of the Family weekly highlights includes details of Sir Andrew McFarlane’s retirement as President of the Family Division, the Family Procedure Rules Committee annual report from April 2024 to March 2025 and the HM Courts and Tribunals Service’s release note confirming that solicitors can now update their own contact details on the Financial Remedy Service portal. Analyses of parental responsibility, birth registration and non-biological fathers and post-placement parental contact are set out. Recent judgments on recognition of overseas divorce and competing applications concerning a child in care arising from an application for contact and the local authority’s applications for protective orders are also considered. A new Practice Note has been added on the allocation of children proceedings.

This week's edition of Family weekly highlights includes details of the roll-out of the transparency pilots, the transition of matters from the national deprivation of liberty list to the Court of Protection and confirmation that applications can now be made online for a ten year search for copies of decree absolutes and final orders. The duty of full and frank disclosure in financial remedy arbitrations is considered, together with inherited assets as non-matrimonial property. A new Family Practical Guidance flowchart on the accelerated first appointment procedure in financial remedy proceedings in the Financial Remedies Court is also set out.

This week’s edition of the Family weekly highlights includes details of updated standard family orders, changes to delegated authority for legal aid providers in relation to Child Focused Courts (formerly known as Pathfinder) and the Department for Education’s response to the consultation on establishing the Child Protection Authority in England alongside an analysis of the consultation responses. Recent judgments on an appeal against a decision to discharge a without notice non-molestation order, a dispute concerning the value and division of matrimonial assets and an application for a costs order following a substantive financial remedy judgment are also considered.

This week's edition of Family weekly highlights includes details of the President of the Family Division’s Practice Guidance: Urgent applications, out of hours applications and bundles in the Family Division of the High Court. Gender dysphoria in private children proceedings is also considered, together with interim contact in public children proceedings and the latest Family Procedure Rule Committee minutes.

This week's edition of the Family weekly highlights includes details of the Family Justice Council’s 18th annual debate and the update to the Family Public Law digital portal’s payment by account number feature. Analyses of the role of a qualified legal representative and the Court of Protection’s approach to be taken towards provision of position statements and skeleton arguments to public observers in proceedings covered by transparency orders are included, together with details of the House of Lords recommendations for the urgent overhaul of the Child Maintenance Service. Recent judgments on disclosing confidential information from children proceedings to regulatory bodies and applications for summary return orders under the inherent jurisdiction are also considered.

This edition includes details of the most recent View from the President’s Chambers and updated guidance on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) released by the Courts and Tribunals Judiciary. Recent judgments, including the Supreme Court's dismissal of an appeal against the discharge of injunctions prohibiting identification of the clinicians involved in treating gravely ill children, consideration of intermediary assistance in care proceedings and the use of a Hadkinson order are also set out.

This week's edition of the Family weekly highlights includes analysis of the Supreme Court decision in Standish v Standish on matrimonialisation and the sharing principle. Recent judgments on international relocation under the Children Act 1989, care orders and the division of assets in accordance with the sharing principle are also considered.

This week's edition of Family weekly highlights includes details of the Family Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2024, SI 2024/1016 and the Conkerton memorial lecture to the Liverpool Law Society by Mr Justice Cobb. Details of recent judgments are also set out including a decision on detrimental reliance and constructive trusts and an application for a confiscation order within contempt proceedings.