Parklane Plowden Podcast – Analysing 2023 in children’s family law and what it means for 2024

Listen to Parklane Plowden’s latest PLP Podcast – Analysing 2023 in children’s family law and what it means for 2024.

Last year saw a series of case law decisions that will impact practitioners in 2024.

Parklane Plowden children’s family law barrister Maxine Best is joined by fellow PLP family barristers Naakesha Michl and Sara Anning, who also sits as a recorder, to discuss 2023’s children’s family case law decision highlights. 

Together, they discuss case law decisions impacting practitioners in areas such as Section 20 orders under the Children’s Act; procedural fairness; habitual residence; finding of fact hearings where adult harm is involved; and the placement of children under care orders. 

The three also consider key trends and issues practitioners need to be aware of throughout 2024.

Listen to the podcast below.

Helpful resources and further reading:

Section 20

05.01.2023 – Re S (A Child) and Re W (A Child) (s 20 Accommodation) [2023] EWCA Civ – https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/Civ/2023/1.html

Williams v Hackney (as referenced on the podcast) – https://www.supremecourt.uk/cases/docs/uksc-2017-0037-judgment.pdf

Procedural Fairness

28.02.2023 – Re P (Fair Hearing) [2023] EWCA Civ 215 – https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/Civ/2023/215.html 

Habitual Residence

12.06.2023 – Re A (A Child) (Habitual Residence: 1996 Hague Child Protection Convention) [2023] EWCA Civ 659 – https://www.bailii.org/cgi-bin/format.cgi?doc=/ew/cases/EWCA/Civ/2023/659.html&query=(EWCA)+AND+(Civ)+AND+(659) 

19.10.2023 – Re London Borough of Hackney v P and Others

(Jurisdiction: 1996 Hague Child Protection Convention) [2023] EWCA Civ 1213 – https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/Civ/2023/1213.html 

Sexual harm allegations between parents

07.03.2023 – Re A, B and C [2023] EWCA Civ 360 – https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/A-B-and-C-Judgment.pdf 

Care Orders at home

04.08.2023 – JW (Child at Home under Care Order) [2023] EWCA Civ 944 – https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/JW-Children-judgment-040823.pdf 

Supervision Orders

Public Law Working Group Supervision Orders – https://www.judiciary.uk/guidance-and-resources/publication-of-the-public-law-working-group-supervision-order-report-and-webinar-today-24-april-2023/ 

Threshold Compliance

Re A [2015] EWFC 11 – https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/re-a-child-2.pdf 

Drafting Orders

Lucy Sowden’s article on standard forms of order – https://www.parklaneplowden.co.uk/new-rules-for-standard-family-orders-public-law/