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20 November 2008
Issue: 7346 / Categories: Features , Procedure & practice
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Civil Way

Family advocates should be ready to spend more time in the magistrates’ courts. The ethos behind the Allocation and Transfer of Proceedings Order 2008 (SI 2008/2836) which substantially comes into force on 25 November 2008, and the complementary President’s Practice Direction (PD) issued on 3 November 2008 is to push more private law family work under the Children Act 1989 (ChA 1989) and Pt IV of the Family Law Act 1996 (FLA 1996) down to magistrates and hope that they keep it. The aim is have a quarter of these cases heard by the beaks. The Children (Allocation of Proceedings) Order 1991 (SI 1991/1677) and the Family Law Act 1996 (Part IV) (Allocation of Proceedings) Order 1997 (SI 1997/1896), with their amendments, and the Children (Allocation of Proceedings) (Appeals) Order 1991 (SI 1991/180) are repealed in their entirety. So:

Among those proceedings that must now be started in a magistrates’ court are for parental responsibility by father or step-parent unless a ChA 1989, s 8 application is made at the same time or the child is

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