Case Summaries

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.

Children and Social Work Bill awaits Royal Assent

Short judgment of the President addressing costs after two successful appeals against a local authority.

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Judge allowed the application and made a reporting restriction order; the application for exclusion of the media being withdrawn at this stage.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.