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08 January 2026 / Stephen Gold
Issue: 8144 / Categories: Features , Procedure & practice , Civil way , Family , Construction
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Family procedure changes; expensive company; constructing a strike-out.

DIARY OF A (FAMILY) SOMEBODY: PART 1

The Family Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2025 (SI 2025/1242) (FPAR) and the FPR PD update no 6 of 2025 will either have come into force when you were not looking, or have yet to excite. We have compiled a diary of implementation for you. More dates next time.

21 November 2025 PD 6D is devoted to the regime for service on a person believed to be residing in a refuge (see ‘Civil way’, 174 NLJ 8098, p15). But what is a refuge? Positively, not the supportive next-door neighbour or the nearest McDonald’s. The secret is now out of the bag with a definition. It is a refuge established for the purpose of providing accommodation for victims of, or those at risk of, domestic abuse or a residential home established and maintained by a public body for any other purpose that also provides accommodation to the same class.

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