Family

• Parental alienation caused by unreasonable delay in proceedings breaches parent's Article 8 rights (ECtHR)
  In Schrader v Austria (15437/19) [2021] ECHR 808, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) decided that the undue delay in domestic children proceedings, which had caused the applicant father to lose his relationship with his stepchild (a child of the family) and impacted on his relationship with his child, breached his human rights.
• FPR Practice Direction Update: No 7 of 2021 issued
  On 14 October 2021, Practice Direction Update: No 7 of 2021 was issued, and amends pilot Practice Directions 36M, 36Q and 36R.
• Ask Family: What options are available to a petitioner to progress a divorce where the respondent has failed to provide their consent to a petition based on two years' separation?
  We have published What options are available to a petitioner to progress a divorce where the respondent has failed to provide their consent to a petition based on two years' separation?