The Red Book: The Family Court Practice 2025

This new edition of Family Court Practice 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.

Authoritative, practical and written by a team of eminent editors, the Red Book 2025 contains in a single volume:

All the usual updating of the legislation, rules and other documents essential to practice in family proceedings plus updated commentary and caselaw;

NEW - a list of Quick Finds inside the front cover, hyperlinked for pdf and online users;

NEW - improvement of the inside back cover to include not only the oaths and affirmations of witnesses and interpreters but also the standard wording of the statement of truth and the judicial oath;

NEW - 17 additional Essentials (now 42 in total), including topics such as recognition of foreign marriages, forced marriage, valuing business interests, interim care orders, human rights and the vital pre-action protocols in both children and financial cases;

NEW - the continuing development of the new Part VIII by moving the main evidence legislation into this Part and expanding it to address Proof of Facts in Family Proceedings