Guides
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September 5, 2025
Practice Note: The Chancery Guide
The new Chancery Guide was published on 29 July 2022. This Practice Note accompanies the update published in September 2025
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June 20, 2025
Technology & Construction Court Guide revision for applications or claims under the Building Safety Act 2022
Find out more about this Building Safety Act Working Group update
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June 4, 2025
Court of Appeal (Civil Division) Guide 2025
Find out more about the running and work of the court in the past year
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May 7, 2025
New protocol on communications between judges in Scotland, England & Wales, and Northern Ireland in cases involving adults who lack capacity, and accompanying handbook
Read more about the protocol, and use the request form and accompanying handbook
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March 24, 2025
2025 Protocol and Good Practice Model: Disclosure of information between Coroners and the Family Court in cases involving fatality
A guide to best practice for Family Court Judges and Coroners where there are parallel proceedings
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February 27, 2025
PFD Guidance – Citation of Authorities: Judgments of Circuit Judges and District Judges
Read the guidance by Sir Andrew McFarlane, President of the Family Division
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February 26, 2025
President of the Family Division publishes updated guidance on writing to children, developed with the Family Justice Young People’s Board
Find out more about when, how and why to write to children in family court proceedings
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January 30, 2025
Family Justice Council Guidance on Neurodiversity in the Family Justice System for Practitioners
Sir Andrew McFarlane explains more about the guidance for legal practitioners working with neurodivergent users of the Family Justice System
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September 20, 2024
Reporting Pilot Guidance (August 2024)
See the guidance from the President of the Family Division and the Transparency Implementation Group. Note this guidance replaces the guidance issued in January 2023.
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September 12, 2024
The Administrative Court Judicial Review Guide 2024 has been published
The Guide is required reading for all those who conduct judicial review cases (whether or not they are lawyers)