The Red Book: The Family Court Practice 2019 with Autumn Supplement

The Family Court Practice (Red Book), covers the entire range of family business and contains all the essential materials you need to practise in the Family Court.

The new edition is fully updated to include the latest case-law, full coverage of new and amended legislation, Practice Directions and guidance. It also contains fully and expertly annotated statutes and rules together with scores of unique step-by-step procedural guides, which direct you effortlessly to the relevant rules and annotation.

• The Autumn Supplement was published in November 2019
• The Main Work was published in June 2019

What’s new for 2019

• The latest amendments to the FPR, including:
  • updated PD9A – Application for a Financial Remedy
  • updated PD27A – Family Proceedings: Court Bundles
• Pilot Schemes:
  • Procedure for Service of Certain Protection Orders on the Police (PD36H)
  • Transparency (Attendance at Hearings in Private) (PD36J)
  • Procedure for Using an Online System to Complete Certain Stages of Certain Proceedings for a Matrimonial Order (PD36L)
• The latest updates to the CPR
• The Human Fertilisation and Embryology (Parental Orders) Regulations 2018, plus new commentary
• Recent guidance on:
  • anonymisation
  • arrangements for adoption visit
  • communicating with UK Visas and Immigration
• Updated Procedural Guides
• The latest case law, including:
  Mills v Mills [2018] UKSC 38
  • Owens v Owens [2018] UKSC 41
  • R (on the application of Steinfeld and Keidan) v Secretary of State for International Development [2018] UKSC 32
  • Williams and another v London Borough of Hackney [2018] UKSC 37
• New and expanded commentary on:
  • habitual residence
  • care plans
  • legal bloggers
  • breach of reporting restrictions
  • Forced Marriage Protection Orders single applicants for parental orders under the new s 54A of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008
  • voidable marriages
  • nuptial agreements
  • disclosure