Case Summaries

Application for committal of child’s uncle for alleged breach of a Collection Order in child abduction case struck out due to serious procedural defect

Application for permission to appeal out of time by the Husband in financial remedy proceedings. Holman J grants permission to appeal following a ‘Barder’ event.

Wife’s application for permission to appeal and to set aside financial remedies order on the basis, inter alia, of a number of matters she argued constituted Barder events with Husband’s cross-application for a civil restraint order against the wife.

Application to appeal an interim child arrangement order where the child made allegations against a parent. Appeal dismissed.

Within the final hearing in this financial remedies application, Mostyn J considers the law concerning the presence of the media in court and whether the practice of ordering every ancillary relief matter to be heard in open court is compliant with PD27.10 of the FPR 2010.

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 as a result of failure by the relevant clinic. Declarations granted.

The Court of Appeal reversed a decision of the Central London County Court to impute common intention constructive trusts with respect to properties and companies held in the parties’ respective sole names.

Appeal in jointly owned property dispute as to whether the court has jurisdiction to order the transfer of one beneficiary’s interest to another and/or power to direct trustees of land to sell property to particular beneficiaries without the other co-owner’s consent.

Application by a father for a parental order under section 54 (1) of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008 solely in his favour. Application dismissed on the basis that such an order is not available to a sole parent.

Cross applications for an adoption order and the return of the subject child to local authority care pursuant to section 35(2) Adoption and Children Act 2002

Further judgment in long-running financial remedies proceedings in which the wife sought a lump sum of £27 million.

Care proceedings brought by a local authority in respect of siblings who, it argued, were in danger of being radicalised.

Child support variation appeal in which the Upper Tribunal considers the relationship between receipt of working tax credit and the ability of the Secretary of State / First-Tier Tribunal to agree a variation.

Judgment by the President of the Family Division, giving reasons for making an urgent order concerning the medical treatment of Jake, a gravely ill ten-month old child.

Child support appeal challenging a decision to “vary” the appellant’s income by reference to his real property assets, on the basis it was not a just and equitable variation – s 28F Child Support Act 1991, regulation 18 CSM (Variation) Regulations 2000.

Application by parents for permission to appeal against care and placement orders on the basis that the court had failed to properly determine whether the mother had litigation capacity at the time the proceedings were heard