This portable new work contains key statutory extracts and passages from leading judgments and will ensure you have accurate references to hand while at court.

Each topic is covered in usually one but no more than two or three pages and contains a quote from a statute or a case, bullet points or a mixture of all three.

His Honour Judge John Mitchell

General

• Welfare Test
• Standard of Proof
• Domestic Violence
• Expert Evidence
• Restraining Further Applications
• Communicating with the Home Office
• Police Protocol                       

European Convention For The Protection Of Human Rights And Fundamental Freedoms 1950

• Articles 2, 6, 8, 10
• Considering Article 8: Notes                        

Private Law

• Parental Responsibility
• Paternity Testing
• Contact          
• Change of Name
• Removal from the Jurisdiction
• Interim Residence Order – Applications Without Notice
• Interim Contact Order
• Permission to Apply for an Order
• Special Guardianship
• Rule 9.5 Guardians

Public Law 

• Threshold Test
• Interim Care and Supervision Order
• The Child as Witness
• Assessments
• Uncertain Perpetrator
• CarePlans

Adoption 

• Welfare Test
• Dispensing with Consent
• Adoption Procedure: Overriding Objective 

Child Abduction 

• Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction
• Habitual Residence 

Costs 

• General Costs Rule
• Wasted Costs 

Appeals 

• Reasons
• Fresh Evidence
• Discretion                       

Miscellaneous 

• Useful Addresses
• Calendar