This article discusses the Serious Crime Act 2015 in the UK, which introduced Female Genital Mutilation Protection Orders. These orders provide increased protection over the civil law provisions (e.g., prohibited step orders) whose non-specificity impacted effectiveness of protection of girls. The authors focus their analysis on the case, Re E (Children) (Female Genital Mutilation Protection Orders), the case of three young Nigerian girls who were protected with the female mutilation protection orders.