Family Law: Practice and Procedure

Lyndsey Keogh (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

800 Seiten

2025
Bloomsbury Professional (Verlag)
978-1-5265-2418-8 (ISBN)

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Provides practitioners with a comprehensive guide to practice and procedure in each jurisdiction in Ireland (District, Circuit and Superior Courts) together with basic essential precedents. It is the first general textbook in many years to detail practice and procedure in the family law courts. It is a comprehensive and detailed guide to the court’s rulings, legislative developments and procedural and evidential rules, which are extraordinarily specific, setting out the rules comprehensively and clearly. It is accessible and useful for practitioners with all relevant material on the practical considerations, procedural requirements and evidential issues specific to family law proceedings in the lower and superior courts.
The book covers:

- The most recent case law and recent legislative developments
- The rules of District Court, Circuit Court and High Court
- Detailed analysis and practical guidance on all recent case law and key procedural developments in the areas of divorce, civil partnership, child law, financial provision, enforcement and appeals
- Discovery rules in family law
- Enforcement of judgments / committals
- Transfer of proceedings/ consolidation
- Settlement of proceedings
- Costs
- Third party procedure
- Appeals

This title is included in Bloomsbury Professional's Irish Child and Family Law online service.

Lyndsey Keogh is a barrister practicing predominantly in the family law courts. She has significant experience in the District, Circuit and Superior Courts. She is the Family Law Course Co-ordinator and tutor for the Barrister at law degree programme since 2019. Lyndsey is the Education Chair of the Family Lawyers Association since 2019 where she is responsible for organising regular Continuous Professional Development events each month focusing on topics relating to family law. She has extensive knowledge of practice and procedure in family law across all jurisdictions having practiced almost exclusively in this area since 2013. She has a keen interest in practice and procedure.

Foreword
Preface
Table of Cases
Table of Legislation
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: The District Court (venue, jurisdiction, initial applications – issue, service of documents, hearing/evidence, discharge/variation applications, appeals)
Chapter 3: The Circuit Court (venue, jurisdiction, initial applications – issue, service of documents, hearing/evidence, discharge/variation applications, appeals)
Chapter 4: The High Court
Chapter 5: Appeals (to include Court of Appeal/Supreme Court)
Chapter 6: Third Party procedure
Chapter 7: Transfer of Proceedings/ Consolidation
Chapter 8: Discovery in Family Law
Chapter 9: Striking Out/ Settlement of Proceedings
Chapter 10: Evidence (to include expert evidence
Chapter 11: Enforcement
Chapter 12: Costs
Chapter 13: The Family Court Bill 2020
Precedents
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.1.2025
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 248 mm
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht ► Familienrecht
ISBN-10	1-5265-2418-X / 152652418X
ISBN-13	978-1-5265-2418-8 / 9781526524188
Zustand	Neuware