PRACTICE DIRECTION 9B – COMMUNICATION OF INFORMATION FROM FINANCIAL REMEDY PROCEEDINGS
This Practice Direction supplements FPR rule 9.46
| Title | Number |
| Introduction | Para 1.1 |
| Communication of information by a party etc. for purposes relating to appeals under the Child Support Act 1991 | Para 2.1 |
| Onward communication | Para 3.1 |
| Interpretation | Para 4.1 |
Subject to any direction of the court, information from financial remedy proceedings may be communicated for the purposes of the law relating to contempt of court in accordance with this Practice Direction.
Communication of information by a party etc. for purposes relating to appeals under the Child Support Act 1991
2.1
A person specified in the first column of the following table may communicate to a person listed in the second column such information as is specified in the third column for the purpose specified in the fourth column –
| A party | The Secretary of State, a McKenzie Friend, a lay adviser or the First-tier Tribunal dealing with an appeal under section 20 of the Child Support Act 1991 | Any information relating to financial remedy proceedings | For the purposes of making or responding to an appeal under section 20 of the Child Support Act 1991 or the determination of such an appeal |
| A party or any other person lawfully in receipt of information | The Secretary of State, a McKenzie Friend, a lay adviser or the Upper Tier Tribunal dealing with an appeal under section 24 of the Child Support Act 1991 in respect of a decision of the First-tier Tribunal that was made under section 20 of that Act | Any information relating to financial remedy proceedings | For a purpose connected with an appeal under section 24 of the Child Support Act 1991 in respect of a decision of the First-tier Tribunal that was made under section 20 of that Act |
Onward communication
3.1
A person in the second column of the table at paragraph 2.1 may only communicate information relating to the proceedings received from a person in the first column for the purpose for which he or she received that information.
Interpretation
4.1
In this Practice Direction-
“lay adviser” means a non-professional person who gives lay advice on behalf of an organisation in the lay advice sector; and
“McKenzie Friend” means any person permitted by the court or tribunal to sit beside an unrepresented litigant in court or in a tribunal to assist that litigant by prompting, taking notes and giving advice to that litigant.
Updated: Monday, 30 January 2017