Hershman and McFarlane: Children Act Handbook 2019/20

by Andrew McFarlane

Overview

Providing a single volume source of key children proceedings' legislation and related guidance, this new edition contains consolidated and fully amended texts of the Children Act 1989 and relevant provisions of the Family Procedure Rules 2010 and supplementary Practice Directions.

This Handbook meets the need for a reliable, up-to-date and yet still portable source which is specifically designed for use in court by all child law practitioners, judges and social workers.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781526511683
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	09/06/2019
Series:	Bloomsbury Family Law
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	950
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

Sir Andrew McFarlane, President of the Family Division.
The Rt Hon Sir Andrew McFarlane is President of the Family Division

Table of Contents

Part I – Statutes
Adoption and Children Act 2002
ss 1, 18–29, 51A, 51B, 52
Children Act 1989
Children and Families Act 2014
s 13
Part II – Statutory Instruments
Family Court (Composition and Distribution of Business) Rules 2014
Family Procedure Rules 2010
Relevant core Rules and Practice Directions
Part III – Practice Guidance
Practice Guidance (Committal for Contempt of Court – Open Court) (24 June 2015)
Practice Direction (Committal for Contempt of Court – Open Court) (26 March 2015)
Practice Guidance (Transparency in the Family Courts: Publication of Judgments) (16 January 2014)
President's Guidance (Allocation and Gatekeeping for Care, Supervision and other Proceedings under Part IV of the Children Act 1989 (Public Law)) (22 April 2014)
President's Guidance (Continuity and Deployment (Public Law)) (22 April 2014)
President's Guidance (Use of Prescribed Documents (Public Law)) (22 April 2014)
President's Guidance (Allocation and Gatekeeping for Proceedings under Part II of the Children Act 1989 (Private Law)) (22 April 2014)
President's Guidance (Continuity and Deployment (Private Law)) (22 April 2014)
President's Guidance (Use of Prescribed Documents (Private Law)) (22 April 2014)
President's Guidance (The International Child Abduction and Contact Unit (ICACU)) (10 November 2014)
President's Guidance (The Role of the Attorney General in appointing Advocates to the Court or Special Advocates in Family Cases) (26 March 2015)
President's Guidance (Tagging or Electronic Monitoring in Family Cases) (April 2015 (reissued 30 July 2015))
President's Guidance (Radicalisation Cases in the Family Courts) (8 October 2015)
President's Guidance (Liaison between Courts in England and Wales and British Embassies and High Commission Abroad) (April 2016)
President's Guidance (Transfer of Proceedings under Article 15 of Brussels IIA and Articles 8 and/or 9 of the 1996 Hague Convention) (April 2016)
President's Guidance (Allocation of work to Section 9 Judges) (December 2016)
Practice Guidance (Family Court – Duration of ex parte (without notice) orders (18 January 2017)
Practice Note (The Official Solicitor to the Senior Courts: Appointment in Family Proceedings and Proceedings under the Inherent Jurisdiction in relation to Adults) (January 2017)
President's Guidance (Jurisdiction of the Family Court: Allocation of cases within the Family Court to High Court Judge level and transfer of cases from the Family Court to the High Court) (28 February 2018)
President's Guidance (Listing final hearings in adoption cases) (10 April 2018)
Part IV – Miscellaneous
Calendars 2016–2019

Editorial Reviews

“This is a Handbook edited by those who know exactly what you need at court. I recommend always having a copy to hand” —Review of a previous edition

“Essential...it is a great boon to have all these materials in one relatively small volume..this volume is a must” —Review of a previous edition

“Indispensable” —Review of a previous edition

“As good as ever” —Review of a previous edition

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