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LNB NEWS: Family Procedure Rules 2010 Practice Direction update no 3 of 2023

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12 June 2023
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The third Family Procedure Rules 2010 (FPR 2010) Practice Direction update of 2023 has been issued, amending various Practice Directions including, inter alia, the revocation of FPR 2010, PD 36ZB (Pilot scheme: Procedure for using an online system to complete and file certain applications for an adoption order) and its replacement with a new Practice Direction, FPR 2010, PD 41E (Procedure for using an online system to complete and file certain applications for an adoption order). 

Lexis®Library update: Amendments have also been made to three existing Practice Directions, FPR 2010, PD 36P (Pilot Scheme: Placement proceedings: Procedure for specified steps to be taken via the online system), FPR 2010, PD 36ZD (Pilot Scheme: Online system for certain private law proceedings relating to children and for certain protective orders) and FPR 2010, PD 41D (Proceedings by electronic means: Public law proceedings and emergency proceedings relating to children). The amendments came into force on 18 May 2023.

The following amendments to FPR 2010, SI 2010/2955 are set out in the Practice Direction update:

• FPR 2010, PD 36P (Pilot Scheme: Placement proceedings: Procedure for specified steps to be taken via the online system), FPR 2010, PD 36ZD (Pilot Scheme: Online system for certain private law proceedings relating to children and for certain protective orders) and FPR 2010, PD 41D (Proceedings by electronic means: Public law proceedings and emergency proceedings relating to children) are amended to ensure that they match the operational reality of various of HM Court and Tribunal Service’s online systems to start and progress court proceedings, and

• FPR 2010, PD 36ZB (Pilot scheme: Procedure for using an online system to complete and file certain applications for an adoption order) is revoked and replaced with a new Practice Direction, FPR 2010, PD 41E (Procedure for using an online system to complete and file certain applications for an adoption order)—the provisions of FPR 2010, PD 41E largely replicate those that were in FPR 2010, PD 36ZB, save that adjustments have been made to reflect changes to the online system which will enable local authorities to add information to an application which will be more readily available to them than to the prospective adopters, such as details of the child’s birth parents

Source: Ministry of Justice: FPR 2010 Practice Direction Update No 3 of 2023

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