Family Division

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• February 19, 2025

  Re Z (Unlawful Foreign Surrogacy: Adoption)

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• February 14, 2025

  Launch of the High Court Judicial Assistant Scheme 2025/2026

  Applications for this vacancy close at 6pm on Friday 21 March 2025

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• February 6, 2025

  Re: H (Anonymous Surrogacy)

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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

  FamilyFamily CourtFamily DivisionPresident of the Family DivisionSir Andrew McFarlaneFamily Justice CouncilGuides

• January 27, 2025

  Open reporting provisions extended to all family courts in “watershed moment for family justice”

  Read about the final extension across England and Wales of the provisions that began with a pilot in three courts two years ago

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• January 24, 2025

  Tickle and Summers -v- BBC, PA and others

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• January 23, 2025

  Practice Guidance by the PFD: The use of Intermediaries, Lay Advocates and Cognitive Assessments in the Family Court

  Please read this latest guidance by Sir Andrew McFarlane, President of the Family Division

  FamilyFamily CourtFamily DivisionPresident of the Family DivisionSir Andrew McFarlanePractice Guidance

• January 21, 2025

  Guidance from the President of the Family Division: Transfer of proceedings

  Please read this guidance for the judiciary, which is an update on a previous document

  FamilyFamily DivisionPresident of the Family DivisionSir Andrew McFarlanePractice Guidance

• January 21, 2025

  President’s Guidance: Public law children cases with an international element

  This replaces the President of the Family Division’s Guidance of November 2014 about the International Child Abduction and Contact Unit

  FamilyFamily DivisionPresident of the Family DivisionSir Andrew McFarlanePractice Guidance

• January 14, 2025

  Re X and Y

  CivilCourt of Appeal Civil DivisionFamily DivisionJudgment

The details given in a judgment about the facts of a case may sometimes constitute distressing content (particularly in criminal cases, or cases involving children).