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HMCTS issues business priorities for family courts and Court of Protection during COVID-19 outbreak

HM Courts & Tribunals Service has set out the business priorities for family courts during the coronavirus outbreak, setting out the work that must be done, the work that will be done and the work that “we will do our best to do”.

These priorities have been previously agreed with the President of the Family Division.

Work that must be done

All urgent orders, including but not limited to:

Public Law Children:

  • Emergency Protection Orders
  • Interim Care Order
  • Renewal of Interim Care Order
  • Secure Accommodation Order
  • Deprivation of Liberty authorisation

Private Law Children: Urgent applications

  • Child Abduction Orders (including Tipstaff Orders)
  • Domestic Abuse (Family Law Act) Injunctions
  • Female Genital Mutilation and Forced Marriage Protection Orders
  • Divorce – urgent applications and decrees absolute

Court of Protection:

  • Urgent applications
  • Applications under Mental Capacity Act 2005, s 16A and s 21A
  • Serious medical treatment cases
  • Deprivation of Liberty
  • Form COP1 Statutory Wills – where person is near end of life.
  • Safeguarding applications via the Office of the Public Guardians

Work that will be done

  • Gatekeeping and allocation referrals –care
  • Gatekeeping and allocation referrals – private
  • Other family care orders/documents/emails
  • Court of Protection – welfare cases

Work that "we will do our best to do"

  • Other family private law orders/documents/emails
  • Adoption orders
  • Divorce
  • Financial remedy
  • Court of Protection –property and affairs
  • Probate

More details can be viewed here.