Family Law

In his 'View from the President's Chambers: the process of reform: an update' in July 2013, the President of the Family Division, Sir James Munby, explained his concern at the amount of time and money wasted in the process of drafting orders that could be standardised. He appointed Mostyn J to lead a drafting group with the aim of providing a comprehensive set of orders, the use of which would become mandatory in the Family Court and the Family Division.

Here, we have all the draft standard orders released to date in one place for ease of reference and will continually update this page with breaking news on the orders project.

Towards the end of 2013 the first tranche of orders were disseminated. These focused on the following:

• Reporting Restriction Order
  
• Arbitration Orders
  
• Committals
  
• Forced Marriage
  
• Part IV
  
• Financial Remedies
  
• Search and Freezing Orders

In his 12th ‘View from the President's Chamber: The process of reform: next steps’ on 9 June 2014, the President reiterated the continued aim, as with every aspect of the family justice system, to 'simplify and streamline the process so as to make it more user friendly for litigants,litigants in person in particular, and quicker and cheaper for all'. The President remains 'convinced of the necessity of producing a comprehensive set of forms of order for use in the Family Division and the Family Court'.