Question follow-through · 72701
Family Courts
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the threshold is for the number of appeals that can be made in a family court hearing.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Justice
- Tabled
- 29 Aug 2025
- Target answer date
- 2 Sept 2025
- Answer
- 5 Sept 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
29 Aug 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the threshold is for the number of appeals that can be made in a family court hearing.
2 Sept 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
5 Sept 2025
Answer published
There is no statutory limit on the number of oral requests that a party can make at any hearing for permission to appeal.Appeals of family decisions to the family court and the High Court are governed by Part 30 of the Family Procedure Rules 2010 and Prac...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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