Midlands Circuit – Practice Note – Public Law 21st May 2026
Please click here to link to the Midlands Circuit - Practice Note - Public Law 21st May 2026 PDF...
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28
May
09
March
Non-Molestation Orders – New Guidance
Leicestershire Law Society and 2 New Street Chambers will be providing a seminar in the spring on the new guidance for Non-Molestation orders. Pupil Barrister Mehreen Kazmi of 2 New Street Chambers shares a short summary of the guidance which came into effect on Monday...
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06
May
Private Law and Financial Remedies Update
Heather Popley and Juliet Allen of No5 Chambers will be presenting a pre-court morning seminar at Provincial House, New Walk, Leicester on Monday 13th May 2019, from 9:00-10:30am. The event attracts one CPD point and will be a caselaw update snapshot, costing £10. Click here...
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10
October
Hair Strand Drug Testing
Lawyers and social care professionals alike will be familiar with the deployment of "hair strand testing" for analysis of a suspected illicit substance consumption. These reports are often commissioned within public law child protection proceedings to provide evidence to the Court as to what drugs...
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05
September
HRA Applications in Children Act Proceedings
The course materials from the recent seminar hosted by Clare Coles and Laura Vickers of No5 Chambers are now available to download here. Please note: this is a sizeable document which may take a few moments to download....
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22
September
Family Justice Council Guidance in financial remedy proceedings
Despite the statutory provisions of section 25 MCA 1973 concerns have been raised about the interpretation of needs within financial remedy proceedings. Such concern is highlighted in the 2014 Law Commission report on Matrimonial Property, Needs and Agreements. The background to the report is that in...
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08
August
Re W(TF?!)
You may be aware that the recent Court of Appeal case of Re W [2016] EWCA Civ 793 has been causing some head scratching among commentators, particularly @suesspiciousminds. You can also read articles and summaries by @familylawweek and @CommunityCare. There is no doubt this was a...
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01
March
Financial Relief: Challenging an Arbitration Award
In the recent case of DB v DLJ [2016] EWHC 324 (Fam) Mostyn J considered the merits of an attempt by a wife to set aside an award made at an arbitration hearing on the basis of what she alleged to be a subsequent change of...
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03
November
Section 20 “Agreements” – a further warning
Sir James Munby, President of the Family Division, has issued a stark warning to local authorities regarding the use - or in his words, the misuse - of parental agreements to children being accommodated by the local authority under section 20 of the Children Act...
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08
October
RADICALISATION CASES IN THE FAMILY COURTS – Guidance issued by the President
Please note the important Guidance issued by Sir James Munby President of the Family Division on 8 October 2015 entitled - RADICALISATION CASES IN THE FAMILY COURTS. Within the Guidance, the President addresses the recent increase in the "numbers of children cases coming before the Family Division...
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