Vernon Coaker – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Justice

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Vernon Coaker on 2015-10-26.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what measures are available to an individual to ensure the enforcement of orders by the Family Court.

Caroline Dinenage

If an order made in the family court is breached, a party named in that order may apply to the court to consider appropriate enforcement action.

The family courts have the power to treat breach of an order as a contempt of court, punishable by imprisonment or a fine or both. Where a child arrangements order is breached the court can only make an enforcement order if it is satisfied beyond reasonable doubt that a party has breached the relevant order and has no good reason for doing so.