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Family law brief: February 2025

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14 February 2025 / Ellie Hampson-Jones , Carla Ditz
Issue: 8104 / Categories: Features , Family , Divorce
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Ellie Hampson-Jones & Carla Ditz analyse the outcomes of the first Family Court Annual Report, as well as other crucial developments in the field
  • This quarterly NLJ update explores recent, published judgments and other news relating to family law to help practitioners stay up to date.

The latter part of 2024 saw a number of significant developments in the family law world, in addition to some important published judgments. In this update, we consider:

  • the family court’s latest annual report;
  • the Law Commission’s scoping report on the laws governing finances on divorce and the ending of a civil partnership;
  • the final report of the Duxbury working party; and
  • interpreting a final order in light of the parties’ intentions: XP and YP [2024] EWFC 319 (B).

The Family Court Annual Report 2024

On 2 December 2024, the president of the Family Division, Sir Andrew McFarlane, published the Family Court Annual Report. This report, the first of its kind, focuses on developments and activity in the family court

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