Family

The Court of Appeal has set out general guidance on child contact cases where one parent alleges domestic abuse against the other, in four linked appeals (Re H-N & Ors [2021] EWCA Civ 448).

The 127th and 129th updates to the CPR are under NLJ columnist Stephen Gold’s microscope in this week’s ‘Civil way’.

The Family Justice Council Experts Sub-Committee has announced an open invitation to judiciary, legal, medical, and allied professionals to register their interest in the Experts and the Family Justice System: Widening the Pool event

International child relocation cases are finely balanced and difficult, with everything to win and lose, Kim Beatson and Victoria Brown, of Anthony Gold solicitors, write in this week’s NLJ.

Kim Beatson & Victoria Brown analyse recent relocation cases & lay out some practical advice

Fact-finding hearings in the family courts need to undergo a ‘cultural shift’, a working group set up by the president of the Family Division, Sir Andrew McFarlane, has said.

The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has confirmed that a ‘raft of new amendments’ to the Domestic Abuse Bill 2020 will be presented in Parliament in the week commencing 1 March 2021

On the website SurveyMonkey, President of the Family Division's Public Law Working Group has announced a free Zoom event aimed primarily at ‘professionals and practitioners working in the English and Welsh family justice systems, from family judges, local authority children's services and legal teams and Cafcass staff to barristers’

Nuptial agreements were on the agenda in a webinar and Q&A session which took place last week, chaired by Anthony Gold partner and head of family law Kim Beatson.

A deadline of summer 2021 has been set for publication of the final copy of the Family Division’s Transparency Review on media access and reporting in the Family Court, which was launched in May 2019.