SOURCE CURRENCY
2024 Edition (May 2024, updated November 2024 to include the Autumn Supplement)


UPDATE INFORMATION

The text has been updated to fully incorporate all of the recent changes to the FPR and CPR and accompanying Practice Directions.

What’s new for 2024

Amendments made to the Rules by the Family Procedure (Amendment No 2) Rules 2023, SI 2023/1324 and the Civil Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2024 SI 2024/106

Fully updated Procedural Guides including a new guide to an application for a legal services payment order

All recent legislative developments

The latest amendments to the FPR Practice Directions, including amendments up to and including Update No 3 of 2024

The latest updates to the CPR Practice Directions

Detailed analysis and practical guidance on all recent case law and key procedural developments in the areas of divorce, civil partnership, private/public child law, financial provision, enforcement and appeals

Important guidance issued by the President of the Family Division (eg the 2024 Disclosure Protocol and the President’s Guidance on Urgent and Out of Hours Applications and Bundles of 10 May 2024)

NEW Essentials which provide an overview of a topic’s legal framework and things to be alert to in day-to-day practice, and a more accessible route into the Red Book

NEW Part VIII on Evidence in Family Proceedings

Online archive begun with previous editions of the Red Book from and including 2020 edition

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.

Contents
Part I: Procedural Guides
Detailed guidance covering the following areas:

Applications for Relief Other Than Divorce

Application for Matrimonial and Civil Partnership Proceedings and Related Orders

Enforcement of Orders

Children

Judicial Reviews and Appeals

Miscellaneous

Part II: Statutes
Pertinent provisions of all relevant statutes, reproduced in amended form and annotated by the expert team of contributors.

Part III: Procedure Rules
The full text of the Family Procedure Rules 2010 and practice directions, plus relevant provisions and practice directions from the Civil Procedure Rules 1998. All provisions are reproduced as amended, along with detailed explanation and guidance.

Part IV: Statutory Instruments
Pertinent provisions of all relevant SIs appear in amended form, with commentary from the expert team of contributors.

Part V: Practice Guidance
Relevant practice guidance for family law practitioners.

Part VI: International and Legacy European Material
Coverage of significant European Regulations and Conventions, all fully annotated.

Part VII: Welsh Material
Relevant Welsh legislation and codes of practice.

Part VIII: Evidence in Family Proceedings
Examines evidential requirements in family proceedings.