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2025 – Practice notes and guidance

7/11/25 – President of the Family Division – The Use of Intermediaries, Lay Advocates and Cognitive Assessments in the Family Court

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24/10/25 – President of the Family Division – Practice Guidance Changes to Name on a Child’s Birth Certificate

14/10/25 – AMENDED PN1A of 2021- AMENDED PRACTICE NOTE IN RESPECT OF NEUTRAL EVALUATION HEARINGSDownload
9/9/24 – PN4 of 2025 Practice Note for Liverpool – Family Drug and Alcohol Court (FDAC)Download
Appendix A FDAC ReferralDownload
Appendix B -Directions on Issue (002)Download
Appendix C Order for First directions_ (002)Download
Appendix D-Parent sign up formDownload
Appendix E- FDAC Case Management orderDownload
Appendix F- Order to extend proceedings for further FDAC assessmentDownload
Appendix G-order to extend proceedings for rehabilitation form_Download
Appendix H- Order for FDAC IRH_Download
Appendix I- Non lawyer review reportDownload

18/8/25 – PN3 of 2025 PRACTICE NOTE TO ANNOUNCE THE INTRODUCTION OF A FAMILY MAGISTRATES COURT FOR BIRKENHEAD SITTING AT LIVERPOOLDownload
18/8/25 – CAFCASS and ACDS Guidance for when Guardian and LA views fundamentally differDownload
18/8/25 – PN2 of 2025 PRACTICE NOTE TO INTRODUCE THE 2025 PROTOCOL FOR CASES INVOLVING NEWBORN BABIES IN CHESHIRE AND MERSEYSIDEDownload
24/7/25 – PN6A of 2021 – Re-Amended Practice Note relating to section 7 reports, disclosure from local authorities and attendance of social workers in private law proceedings (002)Download
30/5/25 – PN10A of 2021 Amended Practice Note which introduces updated templates for orders and the case summary for care proceedings [Templates available within the Forms section of this website]Download

24/3/25 – 2025 Protocol and Good Practice Model Disclosure of Information between Coroners and the Family Court in cases involving fatality

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24/2/25 – Citation of Authorities: Judgments of Circuit Judges and District Judges

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February 2025 – Writing to Children: A Toolkit for Judges

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January 2025 – Family Justice Council Guidance on Neurodiversity in the Family Justice System for Practitioners

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January 2025 – Public law cases with an international element

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