The Family Court (Composition and Distribution of Business) Rules 2014 (Version in vigour from 2021-05-24 to )
Currency | No known outstanding effects |
Coming into Force | 24 May 2021 |
- “the 1991 Act” means the Child Support Act 1991 ;
- “appeal” includes an application seeking permission to appeal and an application in the course of the appeal proceedings; ...
- “authorised”, except in the context of references to an authorised court officer, means authorised by the President of the Family Division or nominated by or on behalf of the Lord Chief Justice to conduct particular business in the family court, in accordance with Part 3;
- “authorised court officer” has the meaning assigned to it by rule 44.1 of the Civil Procedure Rules 1998 as applied to family proceedings by rule 28.2(1) of the Family Procedure Rules 2010 ;
- “costs judge” means—
- (a) the Chief Taxing Master;
- (b) a taxing master of the Senior Courts; or
- (c) a person appointed to act as deputy for the person holding office referred to in paragraph (b) or to act as a temporary additional officer for any such office;
- “financial remedy” has the meaning assigned to it by rule 2.3 of the Family Procedure Rules 2010;
- “judge of circuit judge level” means—
- (a) a circuit judge who, where applicable, is authorised;
- (b) a Recorder who, where applicable, is authorised;
- (c) any other judge of the family court authorised to sit as a judge of circuit judge level in the family court;
- “judge of district judge level” means—
- (a) the Senior District Judge of the Family Division;
- (b) a district judge of the Principal Registry of the Family Division;
- (c) a person appointed to act as deputy for the person holding office referred to in paragraph (b) or to act as a temporary additional officer for any such office;
- (d) a district judge who, where applicable, is authorised;
- (e) a deputy district judge appointed under section 102 of the Senior Courts Act 1981 or section 8 of the County Courts Act 1984 who, where applicable, is authorised;
- (f) an authorised District Judge (Magistrates' Courts) ;
- (g) any other judge of the family court authorised to sit as a judge of district judge level in the family court.
- “judge of High Court judge level” means—
- (a) a deputy judge of the High Court;
- (b) a puisne judge of the High Court;
- (c) a person who has been a judge of the Court of Appeal or a puisne judge of the High Court who may act as a judge of the family court by virtue of section 9 of the Senior Courts Act 1981 ;
- (d) the Senior President of Tribunals;
- (e) the Chancellor of the High Court;
- (f) an ordinary judge of the Court of Appeal (including the vice-president, if any, of either division of that court) ;
- (g) the President of the Queen's Bench Division;
- (h) the President of the Family Division;
- (i) the Master of the Rolls;
- (j) the Lord Chief Justice;
- “judge of the family court” means a judge referred to in section 31C(1) of the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984 ; ...
- “lay justice” means an authorised justice of the peace who is not a District Judge (Magistrates' Courts) .
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