Last updated 30 January 2017. Scope and Interpretation
1.1
This Practice Direction prescribes the procedure for the transfer of work from a county court prior to its closure.
1.2
‘closing court’ means a court which is subject to closure; and
‘recipient court’ means a court or courts to which work from the closing court is to be transferred in accordance with paragraphs 2.1 - 2.5. Transfer of Work
2.1
If a court is to be closed, work shall be transferred to the recipient court which has been identified in directions made by the Lord Chancellor, under section 2 of the County Courts Act 1984, having consulted the Lord Chief Justice and, where necessary, following consultation between the Lord Chief Justice and the Master of the Rolls, Chancellor of the High Court or the President of the Family Division.
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The
Family Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2021, which come into force on 6 April 2021, amend the Family Procedure Rules 2010 as follows:
Rule 3 amends rule 6.43 of the FPR which makes provision for cases where service is to be effected on a respondent outside of the United Kingdom.
Rule 4 inserts a new rule 36.3 into the FPR to enable provisions of the FPR to be modified or disapplied by Practice Directions to address issues for the work of the courts arising from a public emergency.
For the Amendment Rules,
The Family Solutions Initiative â a response to a system in crisis Date:26 FEB 2021
The Family Solutions Group (‘FSG’) report, entitled
What about me?: Reframing Support for Families following Parental Separation leaves us in no doubt as to the problems which are currently facing the family justice system which is, we are told, ‘in crisis’.
A key and unifying factor for the crisis is the volume of applications which find their way before the family court. Applications are ‘growing exponentially’. Those pressures which already exist are exacerbated by the current global health pandemic.
In the longer term, it is clear that proposals will be made for ‘an overhaul of the system’. However, until such time, the Family Solutions Group reminds us that current ‘child focussed legislation, rules and professional duties’ already provide a framework for practitioners and that the proper and consistent use of this framework (by lawyers and courts alike) could