Judgment determining the costs liability of the Local Authority and the Registrar General in (Case K), one of the series of cases concerning applications for a declaration of parentage.
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.
Complex and extensive proceedings heard by the President in respect of a contested adoption.
Appeal by mother against refusal to grant permission to oppose the adoption of her child.
Affirmation by Court of Appeal of ‘special contribution’ approach of Miller / McFarlane and Charman No.4. Husband’s appeal, based on his alleged special contribution, dismissed.
Application by husband for permission to appeal against an order refusing his application to vary an order for periodical payments by revoking the same and, instead, capitalising those payments at £34,000. Permission refused and husband ordered to pay the wife £3,453 in costs.
Application by the Husband for an exclusion of the media order and a reporting restriction order. The Judge allowed the application and made a reporting restriction order; the application for exclusion of the media being withdrawn at this stage.
Judgment in relation to issues of equitable accounting occurring between a husband and a wife on the sale of a house which was declared in a Land Registry TR1 to be held on trust for both as joint tenants, following the bankruptcy of the husband.
Appeal by the father of two children, aged 16 and 14 years, against the decision to refuse permission for him to take them to live permanently in Iran.
Appeal to the Court of Appeal against a decision that a child born following a surrogacy arrangement should remain living with the gestational mother rather than the biological father, his partner and twins who were full siblings of the subject child.
Judgment following final hearing of financial remedies claim by wife where the ‘titanic’ litigation lasted over 4 years, with costs of £9m, in which the husband’s open offer was to pay a lump sum of £15m from a kitty of £119m and the wife sought £103m from a kitty of £206m. Wife awarded a lump sum of £64.5m from a kitty of £161m.
Refusal of summary return of a child to El Salvador, pursuant to the 1980 Hague Convention, after successful article 12 “settlement” and article 13(b) “grave risk of harm / intolerable situation” defences.
Judgment on appeal in intractable child arrangements dispute concerning contact between W, a nine year old child, and his father.
Successful Local Authority appeal contending that in respect of a fact-finding hearing there had been a failure to properly analyse and conduct an overall review of medical evidence.
Judgment in relation to the claim by the Secretary of State for the Home Department for Public Interest Immunity in relation to documents ordered to be disclosed into care proceedings.
Appeal against case management order concerning which party should bear the cost of translating documents in public family law proceedings.
