President of the Family Division
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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 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
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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
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January 10, 2025
Practice Guidance: Transition of matters from the national Deprivation of Liberty (DOL) list to the Court of Protection
Ensuring the process around the transition of cases is understood and managed effectively by judiciary and court staff
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January 9, 2025
Family court reporting provisions to extend to all family courts in England and Wales
Find out when the new ‘Reporting Provisions’ will apply from in all family courts in England and Wales
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December 11, 2024
Financial Remedies Transparency pilot notice
Find out more about the intention to roll out the pilot scheme across the country
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December 2, 2024
Family Court Annual Report
Sir Andrew McFarlane, President of the Family Division, has today published the Family Court’s first annual report
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November 7, 2024
Speech by the PFD: Suspected Physical Abuse of Children – Experts in the Family Court
Read the address by Sir Andrew McFarlane to the British Society of Paediatric Radiologists
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November 7, 2024
Wholesale reform to adoption process is needed, says Public Law Working Group
Read the report's recommendations and responses from Mrs Justice Judd and the President of the Family Division
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October 30, 2024
Extensions to family court transparency pilots
The family court reporting pilot will extend to include magistrates' courts and the Royal Courts of Justice - find out more