Further to the statement of the President of the Circuit Court Published on 8 May 2020, and due to the current provisions of the Health Act 1947 (Section 31A -Temporary Restrictions) (Covid-19) Regulations 2020 the sum of the Dublin County Registrar Family Law Motions List on the 1 April 2020(partial list as a continuation from the list on the 9/7/20), 2 April 2020, 22 April 2020, 23 April 2020, 29 April 2020 and the 30 April 2020(partial list) will be listed for hearing in Court 27 First Floor Four Courts Dublin 7 on the 15th of July 2020 commencing at 930 AM in a staggered list published hereunder. Lists for other dates will be published in due course.
Arrangements are in place to ensure compliance with HSE distancing requirements and your cooperation is appreciated. To comply with social distancing requirements staggered times have been allocated for practitioners to attend Court for the hearing of these motions. You must only attend Court at your scheduled time. The hearing will take place in accordance with public health and the Courts Service guidelines.
PLEASE NOTE THE FOLLOWING
- Attend court at the appointed/designated time as there are no waiting facilities. There will not be a second call due to the current restrictions.
- Only one representative for each party to attend court, who must be able to deal with the matter.
- Motions will not be transferred to the Judge's list for hearing on the same day.
- The parties must leave court and take all belongings at the expiry of the allotted time.
- All affidavits and exhibits musts be filed in the Circuit Court Family Law Office NOT LATER THAN 72 hours prior to the hearing as documents will not be accepted in Court. When filing documents for upcoming court attendance ensure the Court Office is notified of the correct record number, date and time of hearing of the matter.
- The moving party must have a clean, complete, indexed and paginated book of pleadings and proceedings for the court for the application.
- Where the Respondent to the Motion is a lay litigant the moving party must inform the lay litigant of the hearing date and time
- The consent email address cannot be used for County Registrar Motions and all applications for orders on consent must now be made in court when the motion is listed for hearing.