Latest News
First Sitting of Addiction Court
25.03.2008 | Launch of the UK's first specialist Family Drug and Alcohol Court
Care Proceedings Reforms
25.03.2008 | New guidance documents.
Other News
25.03.2008 | New guidance on intercountry adoption, and on safeguarding the welfare of children who may have been trafficked.
Mental Capacity Act 2005 in force from April
09.03.2007 | The DCA has announced that the Mental Capacity Act 2005 will come into force from 1st April 2007 though much of the Act will not be implemented until October this year.
New Directions regarding allocations of cases to judiciary allow district judges and recorders to hear placement proceedings
09.03.2007 | The Family Proceedings (Allocation to Judiciary) (Amendment) Directions 2007 come into force on 2nd April 2007.
President's Practice Direction on Court Bundles
27.07.2006 | FAMILY PROCEEDINGS : COURT BUNDLES (UNIVERSAL PRACTICE TO BE APPLIED IN ALL COURTS OTHER THAN THE FAMILY PROCEEDINGS COURT); President's Direction, 27th July 2006
