{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-court-composition-and-distribution-of-business-rules-2014/article-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-court-composition-and-distribution-of-business-rules-2014/article-7.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2014/840",
  "legislation_title": "The Family Court (Composition and Distribution of Business) Rules 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-court-composition-and-distribution-of-business-rules-2014",
  "path": "article/7",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Composition: appeals heard by a judge of High Court level",
  "text": "(1) The family court shall be composed of a judge of High Court level when hearing an appeal from the decision of—\n(a) the Senior District Judge of the Family Division in financial remedy proceedings;\n(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(c) a costs judge; or\n(d) the Gender Recognition Panel where an appeal is brought under section 8(1) of the Gender Recognition Act 2004 (Appeals etc.).\n(2) The family court shall be composed of a judge of High Court level (instead of a judge of district judge level or a judge of circuit judge level) where there is—\n(a) an appeal against a decision referred to in rules 5 and 6; and\n(b) the Designated Family Judge or a judge of High Court level considers that the appeal would raise an important point of principle or practice.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Rule 7(1)(b) omitted (24.5.2021) by virtue of The Family Court (Composition and Distribution of Business) (Amendment) Rules 2021 (S.I. 2021/505), rules 1(2), 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "2004 c.7. Section 8(1) was amended by section 250 of the Civil Partnership Act 2004 (c.33) and by paragraph 8 of Part 1 of Schedule 5 to the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013 (c.30)."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Rules 5-7 applied (22.4.2014) by The Crime and Courts Act 2013 (Family Court Transitional and Saving Provision) Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/956), arts. 1, 10(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2014/840/article/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-31T10:31:20.192297+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}