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Civil way: 27 April 2018

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27 April 2018
Issue: 7790 / Categories: Features , Civil way , Procedure & practice
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  • Speeding in Family Court OK.
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  • Landlords face bans.

FAST FAMILY FARE

4 June 2018. Stick it in the diary. And wait until then? That’s when the fast track (so beloved in the county court because most of the cases crack the day before and everyone speaks with great haste in those cases which go ahead) comes to money in the family court. The Family Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2018 (SI/2018/440) will apply to financial remedy applications issued on or after that date. Each application will be dealt with under either the fast track procedure or the standard procedure. It’s the fast track that is new and will apply in the minority of cases. The standard procedure (they don’t call it the standard track but we shall, eh?) is the appellation for the current procedure which generally applies to financial remedy cases.

The fast track will only be available to applications for spousal and civil partner periodical payments and child periodical payments (which we might see, for example,

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