Family cases still need HM Courts & Tribunals Service (HMCTS) staff to administer them through the Family Court. What may have changed is how family work is received, distributed and listed within the DFJ areas. For example, in some areas more family work may be heard at the Designated Family Centre, with allocation and listing being managed from that location, with some other work taking place elsewhere. 3. Public Law

With Rose's death, the printer took little care with the printing and introduced several errors, making it of limited use. [41] Section 17(1) of the Prosecution of Offences Act 1985 (POA 1985) and Pt.III of the Costs in Criminal Cases (General) Regulations 1986 (the Regulations)The difference between MoJ and Cafcass figures is mainly due to Cafcass only receiving section 8 cases [footnote 2] from the courts. Other differences between the datasets include the following: There was a revision to the methodology used to produce Tables 10 and 11 [footnote 3] – specifically to account for the issue in public law cases where applicants would generally be public bodies (mostly local authorities) with access to their own legal resources, but who would previously have been shown as an ‘unrepresented’ party. This has now been amended such that they are now shown as represented parties in the above tables, and this has changed the percentage of applicants with legal representation in public law cases with at least one hearing from around 20% to 99%. The overall trends seen in the mean time to disposal of public law cases by representation type however (Table 10) have not changed. Divorce has undergone reform, and data for digital cases is available via CCD whilst paper cases are still managed via FamilyMan. Published statistics use a combination of both data systems – initially with information on digital cases being copied across into FamilyMan (with several hundred digital cases not being accounted per quarter for as outlined in the footnotes for the relevant releases), and then using information from both data systems combined from June 2021.

Public law cases are those brought by local authorities or an authorised person (currently only the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children) to protect the child and ensure they get the care they need. In these proceedings, the child is automatically a party and is represented by a Children’s Guardian appointed by the Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service (Cafcass). The Children’s Guardian is an independent person who is there to promote the child’s welfare and ensure that the arrangements made for the child are in his or her best interests. A similar process will take place as other areas are reformed – currently financial remedy (see the Financial Remedy section for details of related issues), and then public law cases. This section will be updated accordingly. The Divorce, Dissolution and Separation Act 2020 which amends existing laws relating to divorce to allow for no-fault divorce in England and Wales. It is scheduled to come into force in April 2022. 17.10 Domestic Abuse Act 2021 Section 6(2) of the Prosecution of Offences Act 1985 gives the DPP discretion to take over the conduct of criminal proceedings;

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Legal representation status as published within family court statistics reflects whether details of an applicant’s/respondent’s legal representative has been recorded or left blank within FamilyMan, the family court case management system. A blank field is assumed to indicate that no legal representative has been used.