A senior judge has ordered lawyers to stop undermining the family court’s powers by ‘rushing off to the High Court at the first sign of complexity’.
Mr Justice Mostyn, in VS v RE, ordered the case to be transferred from the High Court, where enforcement proceedings had taken place, to the family court.
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