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Claire Heppenstall: Schedule 1 Applications and the New Family Procedure Rules 2010

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Date:8 FEB 2011

Claire Heppenstall is a family law barrister at 1 Garden Court Chambers specialising in Ancillary Relief International & Private Child and Child Abduction. Claire will be speaking at the forthcoming Effective Guide to Schedule 1 Children Act 1989 Claims seminar on 11 March along with David Burles Richard Tambling and the event chair Janet Bazley QC. Click here to book a place at the early bird discount price.

Claire HeppenstallIn December 2010 Parliament quietly approved the new Family Procedure Rules 2010. Indeed so quiet was the approval that even now this significant and long awaited event for family lawyers has not been considered worthy of mention on the HM Gov website news section! The absence of fanfare may have left this recent development currently below the radar for most busy practitioners but it cannot be ignored for long given the fast approaching date on which it comes into force. (It is the 6...

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