The phrase "a practice direction" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used in legal contexts to refer to a formal guideline or instruction issued by a court or legal authority regarding the conduct of proceedings.
Example: "The judge issued a practice direction to clarify the procedures for filing motions in the upcoming trial."
Alternatives: "a procedural guideline" or "a court directive".
Robert Brown, 57, said he was prepared to spend up to £100,000 fighting for access to sensitive documents relating to her will and he has appointed solicitors to obtain secret court papers, known as a practice direction, about the sealing of royal wills drawn up around the time of Margaret's death in 2002.
Thomas said: "The best way for dealing with this matter is to make a practice direction … The basic principle will be that it must be for the judge in any case to make his own or her own decision but we will give clear guidance.
Neate is in talks with a senior judge selected by the president of the family division, Sir James Munby, to force the courts to follow guidance, known as practice direction 12J, which is designed to protect mothers from direct cross-examination by violent perpetrators of abuse.
Practice Direction 12J when followed, as it always should be, is a good attempt by the judiciary to achieve the same end, but it is not as good and would not be necessary if family court users were afforded the same protection as those in the criminal court.
The guidance, known as practice direction 2, states that where there is evidence of domestic abuse, whether violence or coercive control, the court must ensure that any child contact arrangement "protects the safety and wellbeing of the child and the parent with whom the child is living, and does not expose them to further risk of harm".
More broadly, the practice directions provide a fascinating overview of criminal procedures in England and Wales.
Quoting Toulson, Thomas's practice directions say that open justice is a principle "at the heart of our system of justice".
Those amendments were subsequently introduced and the judges had buttressed them with new practice directions and new precedents.
A day later, the new lord chief justice, Sir John Thomas, cited one of Neuberger's decided cases in new practice directions that he issued for the criminal courts of England and Wales.
The practice directions get round this problem quite neatly by saying that if an application for access to information is made by legal representatives instructed by the media, or by an accredited representative who is able to produce a press card, "then there is a greater presumption in favour of providing the requested material".
"The powers of the principal member will be strengthened to enable them to issue practice directions to applicants at review and their representatives (including migration agents and legal practitioners), about the procedures they are to follow in relation to proceedings before the tribunal.
