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Financial Remedies Court (England and Wales) Toolkit: FRG 2026, ES1/ES2 templates, and key practice notes on online management, issuing, disclosure, FDR, final hearings, and the transparency reporting pilot

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This toolkit

This toolkit gathers a range of resources and constitutional documents tied to the Financial Remedies Court (FRC), notably the Financial Remedies Guide (March 2026) (the FRG), which supersedes both efficiency statements, together with template ES1 (composite case summary) and template ES2 (composite schedule of assets and income). It also sets out an overview of the available Practice Notes to support practitioners running cases in the FRC. The FRC operates as a subsidiary structure within the Family Court, with the core aim of enhancing the delivery of financial remedies. See also Practice Note: The Financial Remedies Court. The FRG (issued on 13 March 2026) revised and brought together the Statement on the efficient conduct of financial remedy hearings in the Financial Remedies Court below High Court judge level (January 2022) (the below High Court judge level efficiency statement) and the Statement on the efficient conduct of financial remedy hearings allocated to a High Court judge, whether sitting at the Royal Courts of Justice or elsewhere (February 2016) (the High Court judge level efficiency statement). The FRG additionally amalgamated and replaced the Financial Remedies Court Primary Principles document (11 January 2022), and the Notice from the Financial Remedies Court: electronic bundles...

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