Our Family Law Pod is created by our Family and Divorce team, and provides news, tips and insights around current family law topics, and discusses the implications of key cases and guidance. Useful for anyone involved in the family court, in particular busy solicitors.

Episode 18: Case Law Update #5 – approach to DA allegations and the deeming of threshold

In this episode, Kate Pearson takes us through the detail of a recent case which considered the relevance of domestic abuse allegations when they are not considered as a ‘bar to contact’, and Chelsea Bartlett considers the case which spurred on the recent change to the Standard Family Orders and the ‘deeming of threshold’ provision.

Case citations:

Re D (Threshold Findings and Final Orders at the IRH) [2025] EWCA Civ 1362

GI v K [2026] EWHC 480 (Fam)