Case Summaries

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.

Successful application by a mother for further capital provision for her 16-year old son under Schedule 1, Children Act 1989.

Judgment of Baker J giving a broad interpretation to disclosures made “in furtherance of child protection” under FPR r 12.73.

Application to discharge or vary a periodical payments order which provided for payment on a joint lives basis.

Short judgment of the President dealing with a discrete issue concerning the date to be given to an adoption order.

Judgment of the President dealing with applications by W’s father for a certificate for a ‘leap-frog’ appeal to the Supreme Court, an application to appeal to the Court of Appeal and a stay.

Judgment of the President of the Family Division in which he examines the law in relation to investigatory, enforcement or regulatory agencies fulfilling their statutory functions to wards of court.

Judgment confirming that the grant of refugee status to a child by the Secretary of State for the Home Department is an absolute bar to any order by the Family Court seeking to effect the return of a child to an alternative jurisdiction; consideration of how the grant of refugee status could be challenged when an asylum claim is based on disputed allegations of violence.

Summary assessment of costs by the President of the Family Division in relation to applications for declarations of parentage in accordance with section 55A of the Family Law Act 1986

Summary assessment of costs following judgment in Re the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008 (Case N) [2016] EWHC 1329 (Fam).

Judgment of Hayden J setting out in detail the range and scope of the available support for young people who are at risk of radicalisation.

Judgment of MacDonald J determining whether it was in the child’s best interests to receive palliative care against his parents’ wishes.

The Court of Appeal directly considers the equity of exoneration for the first time since 1898, and specifically how an indirect benefit from a liability can affect the equity between cohabiting couples.

Application, in public law children proceedings, brought by local authority for the committal to prison of step-father and mother of two children for breach of injunctions restricting contact.

Application to the Court of Protection by the attorney of a person said to lack mental capacity that that person should be permitted to donate bone marrow to her adoptive brother who required a bone marrow transplant.