Freestanding port alert orders – Advisory notice from Mr Justice Peel, Judge in Charge of Standard Orders

[I] make this announcement with the authority of the President.

In A v B [2021] EWHC 1716 (Fam) Mostyn J confirmed that the court has the power to issue a freestanding port alert, without requiring a Tipstaff order. This power extends to all levels of the judiciary. Having consulted with the Tipstaff, Mostyn J annexed to his judgment a draft order which was incorporated in the suite of standard family orders pursuant to guidance given with the authority of the President on 6 July 2021.

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