Family law – back to school: holiday update
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It’s that time of year - memories of sun, sea and sand are fading and it’s back to the office we all go. Welcome back (if, indeed, you did manage to get away)! So, what’s been happening in family law over the summer? Below is a quick summary of the main developments.
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Legislation and
practice directions
Pretty quiet on the legislation front
from a family law point of view.
On 31 July 2014 all of Practice Direction
27A - Family Proceedings: Court Bundles
came into force. Parts of paras 4.1, 5.1
and 5.3 were not previously in force – these are the ones about the content and
format of bundles (ie limiting the bundle to just one lever arch file unless
the court directs otherwise).
Part 3 of the Children and Families Act
2014 came into force on 1 September – this is the part that deals with Special
Educational Needs.
There have been some other minor
statutory instruments – see the Legislation and Guidance part of our website
here.
Cases
For all the cases that came out over the
summer, see the judgments part of our website
here. Some of the key cases are listed below:
Legal aid funding:
Q v Q; Re B; Re C [2014] EWFC 31. Case summary and full judgment
available
here. See also Lucy Reed and Judi Evan's article, '
The President’s judgment in Q v Q, Re B (A Child) and Re C (A Child) [2014] EWFC 31 – thinking through the implications'.
Reporting restrictions:
Cooper-Hohn
v Hohn
[2014] EWHC 2314 (Fam). Case
summary and full judgment available
here.
Court of Protection, post
Cheshire West:
Re X and
Others (Deprivation of Liberty)
[2014] EWCOP 25. The full judgment, including the 25
question Annex, is available to download
here. See also Jess Flanagan's article, '
Court authorised Deprivations of Liberty (DoL) in a post-Cheshire West world'.
Other news
The Child Maintenance Service brought in
charges for using the service. See this
article.
Also worth reading is the article detailing the MoJ statistics that only
four family law applications for exceptional case funding have been granted between April and June 2014.
So there we go,
summer is over and we’re back at the coal face of family law feeling
refreshed(!). Looking ahead there will
be plenty of family law developments to keep us busy, especially with the Family Procedure
Rule Committee meeting in October to discuss changes to the rules stemming from
the reports released this summer. Also in October is the
Family
Law Conference
which, as well as featuring a host of distinguished
speakers also features the best pudding one of our team has ever tasted - who
needs the beach when you’ve got family law and puddings?
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