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Joshua Rozenberg
Oct 29, 2025
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The senior family judge of England and Wales is to retire next April. Sir Andrew McFarlane, 71, president of the High Court family division since 2018, told the Commons justice committee yesterday that he had given six months’ notice of his intention to stand down. His time in office had been a period of “enormous change”, he added.

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