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Residence Orders

Answer

The number of applications for residence orders made during 2006 and 2007 are given in the following table. There have been data quality issues with figures for Family Proceedings Courts (FPCs), and a new method of data collection was introduced in April 2007 which has improved the quality and level of recording on previous years. Comparisons between 2006 and 2007 should therefore be made with caution in this jurisdiction.

Number of Section 8 residence applications made, by whether private or public law and tier of court, 2006 and 2007: England and Wales
	Family Proceedings Courts¹	County Courts²	High Courts	Total
2006
Public Law	330	288	37	655
Private Law	4,300	28,802	313	33,415
2007
Public Law	250	291	88	629
Private Law	5,100	29,514	210	34,824
¹ There have been data quality issues with figures for FPCs, and a new method of data collection was introduced in April 2007 which has improved the quality and level of recording on previous years. Pre April 2007, that are weighted estimates based on data from a subset of courts To reflect data uncertainty FPC figures have been rounded.
² Research undertaken on behalf of Ministry of Justice has identified that some cases that have transferred from the Family Proceedings Court to the County Court have been incorrectly recorded as new applications in the County Court, thus inflating the reported number of new applications through double counting (see Masson et al 2008)
Notes:
Figures relate to the number of children subject to each application.
Source:
HMCS FamilyMan system and manual returns

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

488 c853W; 257512

Session

2008-09

Subjects

Residence orders

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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