Lexis®Library update: The Family Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2023, SI 2023/61, which come into force on 6 April 2023, amend Family Procedure Rules 2010 (FPR 2010), SI 2010/2955, r 30.3(5) so as to permit certain circuit judges to refuse applications for permission to appeal in financial remedy proceedings without a hearing and, if the application is totally without merit, to make an order that the appellant may not request the decision to be reconsidered at a hearing. This amendment does not affect the existing powers of High Court judges and designated family judges under FPR 2010, SI 2010/2955, r 30.3(5A) to do so in family proceedings (see LNB News 08/02/2023 53).
.The following circuit judges have been nominated by Peel J under FPR 2010,
• HHJ Cooper—Humberside and South Yorkshire
• HHJ Hess—London
• HHJ Evans-Gordon—London
• HHJ Haigh—Greater Manchester
• HHJ Williams—Dorset and Hampshire
• HHJ Watkins—East Midlands
• HHJ Greensmith—Cheshire and Merseyside
• HHJ Pates—Cheshire and Merseyside
• HHJ Cope—Bristol, Gloucestershire, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset
• HHJ Walsh—Devon, Cornwall and South Somerset
• HHJ Mitchell—Devon, Cornwall and South Somerset
• HHJ Ingram—West Midlands
• HHJ Shelton—North and West Yorkshire
• HHJ Booth—Cumbria and Lancashire
• HHJ Japheth—Mid and West Wales/North Wales
• HHJ Farquhar—Kent, Surrey and Sussex
• HHJ Gibson—Norfolk, Essex, Suffolk, Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Hertfordshire
• HHJ Vincent—Thames Valley
Source: Financial Remedies Court Notice: Appeal Judges
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