The ICL website’s current Learning Management System (LMS), which houses the ICL Phase 1 online training program, is in need of an upgrade. The project to upgrade to a new LMS will commence shortly in August 2023. In the meantime, trainees continue to have access to the training program as per usual. There will be a period…

Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia – (Division 1) Appellate Jurisdiction Jagic & Mattias [2023] FedCFamC1A 57 (3 May 2023) PARENTING – Where the mother appeals from interim parenting orders reversing the residence of the parties’ three young children and requiring them to spend professionally supervised time with her, at her cost – Where the…

Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia – (Division 1) Saller & Danell [2023] FedCFamC1F 122 (7 March 2023) PARENTING – Where final parenting orders made in 2017 – Where father found to have engaged in serious acts of family violence to the mother and sexualised conduct towards the children – Where father previously found to…

Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia – (Division 1) Fierro & Fierro (No 6) [2022] FedCFamC1F 1006 (16 December 2022) PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE – COSTS – Where the second respondent and the ICL seek costs in relation to the applicant’s dismissed Initiating Application – Where the Initiating Application was forlorn of hope, likely to represent…

Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia – (Division 1) Appellate Jurisdiction Hays & Department of Communities and Justice [2023] FedCFamC1A 3 (16 January 2023) HAGUE CONVENTION – Appeal from orders requiring the return of the children to England pursuant to the Family Law (Child Abduction Convention) Regulations 1986 (Cth) (“the Regulations”) – Where the appeal challenged the…

Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia – (Division 1) Appellate Jurisdiction Loverdos & Bonner [2022] FedCFamC1A 174 (26 October 2022) PARENTING – Where the father appeals from final orders permitting the mother to relocate with the children interstate – Whether the primary judge failed to consider s65DAA of the Family Law Act 1975 (Cth) – Where the primary judge’s…

Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia – (Division 1) Appellate Jurisdiction Hickson & Matthew [2022] FedCFamC1A 161 (11 October 2022) PARENTING – Appeal from orders changing the child’s residence from living with the mother to the father – Where the primary judge ordered unsupervised time with the mother despite finding of unacceptable risk for the…

Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia – (Division 1) Appellate Jurisdiction Lim & Zong [2022] FedCFamC1A 146 (20 September 2022) PARENTING – Appeal from orders allowing no time and no communication with the appellant – Where the appellant has engaged in a pattern of coercive and controlling conduct – Family violence and animal cruelty perpetrated…