Its use is required by an instruction issued by the Clerk of the Rules with the approval of the President of the Family Division.

Family Division the President of the Family Division of the High Court, Sir John Smith (or Lord Smith).

A spokesman for Sir Mark Potter, president of the family division of the high court, confirmed that other judges were also worried about the decline in the number of applications for non-molestation orders.

On 12 January 2005, it was announced that she was retiring, being replaced as President of the Family Division by Sir Mark Potter, then a Lord Justice of Appeal.