English family law concerns the law relating to family matters in England and Wales. Family law concerns a host of authorities, agencies and groups which participate in or influence the outcome of private disputes or social decisions involving family law. Such a view of family law may be regarded as assisting the understanding of the context in which the law works and to indicate the policy areas where improvements can be made. The UK is made up of three jurisdictions: Scotland, Northern Ireland, and England and Wales. Each has quite different systems of family law and courts. This article concerns only England and Wales. Family law encompasses divorce, adoption, wardship, child abduction and parental responsibility. It can either be public law or private law. Family law cases are heard in the Family Justice System of England and Wales in both county courts and family proceedings courts (magistrates' court), both of which operate under codes of Family Procedure Rules. There is also a specialist division of the High Court of Justice, the Family Division which hears family law cases. Family relationships Marriage and civil partnership Civil Partnerships Act 2004 Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013 Divorce and dissolution Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 Children Act 1989 Child Support Act 1990 Divorce, Dissolution and Separation Act 2020 Domestic violence Family Law Act 1996 Protection from Harassment Act 1997 Children Act 1989 Property rights Trusts of the family home Property on separation Children Parental responsibility Human Rights Act 1998 Child's upbringing Children's rights Child protection Adoption See also English law Case law Decisions of the Court of Appeal may be issued orally, in which case no report is usually made available to the public. Important or difficult decisions, however, are published on the internet both by the Court Service and by the British and Irish Legal Information Institute. The cases cited here provide examples. Munby judgment: F v M Re D (Intractable Contact Dispute: Publicity) [2004] EWHC 727 (Fam) Wall judgment: A v A (Shared Residence, 4 February 2004) Bracewell judgment: V v V (Change of Residence, 20 April 2004) Butler-Sloss: D v D (Shared Residence Order, 20 November 2000) Re F (2003) EWCA Civ 592, 18 March 2003. (Case of shared residency, father in Hampshire, mother moved to Edinburgh) Miller v Miller (Short marriage, no children, rich husband) Piglowska v. Piglowski (Runaway costs) Clayton v Clayton 2006 (An appeal against injunctions preventing a