On what ground, and under what procedure, may a ruling of the family court be appealed?
General information · Not legal advice
Material to check
In a practice file we read the certified copy of the family court's ruling, the notice of appeal stating the ground relied on, and the papers showing the appeal was lodged under the Non-Contentious Case Procedures Act, since the provision sets both the ground and the procedure.
These are types of material to look for, not evidence already verified by PRO SE.
Where readings differ
One reading treats 'only on the ground that it is a judgment violating statutes' as a hard limit: the appeal must rest on that ground alone and proceeds under the Non-Contentious Case Procedures Act, so a complaint that the ruling was unfair on the facts has no place under this provision.
Another reading notes that the provision fixes the ground and the procedure but leaves open what counts as a violation of statutes and who may bring the appeal, so the file has to show who is appealing and why the ruling is said to breach the law.
Your judgment
Where the complaint concerns the evidence weighed rather than the law applied, how could the file show that the ruling nonetheless violates a statute?
PRO SE does not make this decision or keep a case record on this public site.When to reconsider
We look at this again if the provision is amended to open a further ground of appeal, or if a court decision on the Non-Contentious Case Procedures Act defines when a family court ruling violates statutes.