The new world of non-molestation orders

Non-molestation order [‘NMO’] hearings are generally short (often only listed for 30 minutes), so, I will endeavour to do the same with this article.  Earlier this year, the case of DS v AC [2023] EWFC 46 was the first widely published case on NMOs in some time and it was followed by guidance on NMOs […]

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Navigating Unadmitted Allegations: The Cart Before the Horse

This article is intended as a self-check for a situation which we will all be familiar with and which applies equally to public law and private law proceedings. The unadmitted allegation.  The challenge of unadmitted allegations Sometimes those allegations can be of really nasty and abusive behaviours. The very thought of them causes us naturally to […]

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Re JW (Child at Home under Care Order) [2023] EWCA Civ 944

family law care proceedings

In this recent decision of the Court of Appeal, The President of the Family Division, Sir Andrew McFarlane, acknowledged that ‘a difference exists in the approach taken by courts in different regions when determining whether a final care order, supervision order or no order should be made when care proceedings conclude with a plan for the […]

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To record, or not to record; that is the question. 

In this article, we get Bella Tait’s and Lisa Edmunds‘ take on how recordings of children are to be managed for the purposes of family law litigation. Bella’s Breakdown More and more, in this epoch of technology, clients are coming to their legal team with covert recordings which they want to adduce to support their […]

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