Case Summaries

Application by a litigant in person to appeal a lump sum deduction order out of time.

Application for adoption where the applicant was the maternal aunt of the person to be adopted who was a citizen of Pakistan aged 19 years at the date of the hearing.

Substantial assets financial remedies judgment in which Moylan J (as he then was) comments on the importance of dealing with matters proportionately, and in particular evidencing claims that assets are non-matrimonial

Successful application before Macdonald J for the return of two children to the USA pursuant to the 1980 Hague Convention.

Mostyn J approves a linear approach to historic valuation of a business, rejects special contribution and offers guidance on the ‘sharing’ principle and pre-marital property.

Judgment of Charles J quashing a placement for adoption because the decision to place was procedurally unfair and highlighting what litigants ought to be told about challenging the adoption process.

Judgment addressing the question of whether magistrates sitting in the Family Court have the power to issue a warrant for the arrest of an alleged maintenance debtor who has failed to obey an order to attend for questioning as to his means.

Parents, representing themselves, sought permission to revoke a placement order following their earlier unsuccessful application for permission to appeal

Short judgment of Haden-Cave J, supplemental to AAZ v BBZ [2016] EWHC 3234 (Fam), in which he found that new entities holding a modern art collection were no more than ciphers and the alter ego of the husband. He found those assets to be vested in the husband and ordered that those transactions be set aside.

Judgment of Mr Justice Haddon-Cave, supplemental to AAZ v BBZ [2016] EWHC 3234 (Fam), concerning the principles of Legal Professional Privilege.

Consideration of a stay of proceedings pursuant to Articles 12 and 13 of the Maintenance Regulation in an application for enforcement of terms of a final order in financial remedy proceedings

A husband’s appeal of a judgment in financial remedy proceedings in which the wife had been awarded £4.25 million on a needs basis. Mr Justice Mostyn dismissed the appeal and clarified the concept of needs.

Substantive judgment of Mr Justice Haddon-Cave in financial remedy proceedings awarding over £453m to a wife, including an art collection worth £90m. It addresses issues of pre-marital accrual, special contribution, computation, service out of the jurisdiction and enforcement under the Lugano Convention 2007.

Applications for declarations of parentage in accordance with section 55A of the Family Law Act 1986 where children had been born following donor insemination but statutory requirements had not been complied with.

Appeal by father in children proceedings to correct error of fact in judgment. Appeal allowed and judgment corrected.

Appeal in long-running dispute between two parents about the father’s contact with the parties’ child.