Case Summaries

Judgment in care proceedings in which Jackon J considers the accuracy of hair strand testing for cocaine use and offers guidance in relation to report writing.

Teaching on domestic violence should be mandatory, says report

Judgment in appeal in child support proceedings as to whether an anonymity order (and so a reporting restrictions order) should have been made.

Appeal by the non-resident parent against a decision of the First-tier Tribunal that trust assets were relevant for variation purposes.

Application for the variation of a child arrangements order by the “psychological” parents of a child.

Judgment of Mostyn J (approved by the President) confirming that the court has the power to order one party to make mortgage or other household payments and to indemnify the other in respect of the same.

Application to the Court of Protection in respect of a sufferer of Huntingdon’s Disease by which the court was, in effect, requested ‘if required’ to determine that it would be in the patient’s best interests not to continue to receive clinically assisted nutrition and hydration, with the consequence that she would die.

First instance decision of HHJ Wildblood QC making care and placement orders in public law proceedings. The judge expresses the importance of obtaining necessary therapy for a parent at an early stage, in order to try to avoid a situation where an expert at a final hearing recommends therapy that cannot then take place within the timescales for the relevant child.

Judgment of Mostyn J considering the effect of an asylum claim by the subject children on an application under the 1980 Hague Child Abduction Convention.

Application for a declaration that it was in the best interests of a young man, D to receive stem cell treatment for a brain injury.

Judgment in care proceedings concerning M, a fifteen-year-old boy, who after receiving a community sentence had been living with his grandmother because the local authority had been unable to find a secure placement for him. M has subsequently absconded and is in breach of his community sentence.

Financial remedies appeal considering the correct approach to non-matrimonial property when determining a claim by application of the sharing principle.

Case summary coming soon

Judgment of McFarlane LJ dismissing mother’s appeal following the making of care and placement orders authorising the child to be placed for adoption.

London Borough of Southwark’s application for Deprivation of Liberty and Secure Accommodation Orders in respect of a 14 year old child.

Application to extend the wardship of a child borne via a surrogacy arrangement.