Case Summaries

Appeal by mother against a finding that she deliberately drowned her 7 month old child. Appeal dismissed.

Application by father to enforce a contact order and consideration of where the subject children were habitually resident and whether the court had jurisdiction

Application for permission to appeal and if granted, to appeal, the dismissal of a mother’s application for leave to oppose an adoption order

Mother’s appeal against a child arrangements order which had provided for indirect contact and a s.91(14) Children Act 1989 order

Appeal against decision to revisit an earlier determination of the parties’ cross-applications for a transfer of tenancy under s 53 / Schedule 7 Family Law Act 1996. Appeal dismissed.

Appeal by a former cohabitant seeking to establish a beneficial interest in properties held in her ex-partner’s sole name

Appeal by father against an order suspending all contact between him and the parties’ child and against the making of a section 91(14) order. Appeal allowed.

Appeal against an order that the father should have indirect contact only with the parties’ child after the CAFCASS officer had recommended direct contact to be supervised indefinitely. Appeal allowed and the matter remitted for rehearing.

Judgment in private law children proceedings in which the mother applied both to revoke an order for indirect contact between the father and the parties’ three children and for a s 91(14) order. Order as to parental responsibility and prohibited steps order granted.

Judgment to determine jurisdiction in public law proceedings involving a Polish family.

Consideration as to whether the six month time limit, under s.54(3) of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008, should be extended to enable the making of parental orders

Care proceedings in which it was determined that the child L was habitually resident in England and the court declined to transfer the proceedings to Romania under Article 15 of Brussels IIR

Judgment in high value financial remedies case in which the wife came to the marriage with significant assets and there was a pre-nuptial agreement between the parties – a “paradigm” case demonstrating “the need for more certainty in the law of financial remedies and nuptial agreements”.

Appeal by father against orders granting adoption in favour of a step-father and terminating the child’s contact with his father. Appeal allowed because the procedure was flawed, and matter remitted for rehearing by a different judge.

Final hearing of financial remedies application – 7 year delay between separation and application for financial remedies – consideration of post-separation increase in the value of husband’s shareholding in a company

Appeal by father in care proceedings against a determination that the child had been habitually resident in England and Wales throughout her life. Appeal dismissed.