Appeal by paternal grandmother of a child based upon the assumption that the judge at first instance had not regarded the grandmother’s claim to be the child’s long term carer as being unrealistic in the context of Re B-S. Appeal allowed.
Appeal by father against the refusal to adjourn an application for a re-hearing of care proceedings in which care orders were made in respect of four children and placement orders in respect of two of them.
Appeal by a mother against an order for the return of her 8 year old child to Morocco. Appeal allowed, the original order set aside and substituted with an order dismissing the father’s application.
Judgment arising from an application for strike out and/or summary judgment in relation to a claim under the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975, providing consideration of Vince v Wyatt [2015] UKSC 14 on the limits of strike out and analysis of the requirements in cases with international elements at the early stages of proceedings.
Judgment of Mr Justice Keehan in which he found that the residential placement in hospital of a 15 year-old boy with behavioural disabilities constituted a deprivation of liberty, but concluded that his parents’ consent to the placement was a proper exercise of their parental responsibility.
Ex parte applications by local authorities to prevent travel to ISIS countries. Conduct of such applications and the importance of co-operation between agencies.
2010 post-nuptial agreement largely upheld on grounds of fairness after wife’s case of vitiation by duress rejected
Judgment arising from an application by a wife to enforce arrears accruing under an order for maintenance pending suit order, and from the husband’s cross-application to vary the order and remit arrears accrued.
Appeal against an order dismissing a claim for repayment of £620,000 paid to the respondent for the purposes of an illegal agreement. Appeal allowed.
Consideration of threshold and subsequent appropriate orders within public law proceedings
Appeal against an order permitting relocation of a five year old girl to Sweden
Appeal by local authority to Supreme Court against an order that the local authority should pay the appeal costs of a successful appellant in care proceedings. Appeal allowed and costs order set aside.
Appeal by a father following a fact-finding hearing in private law children proceedings.
Judgment in Court of Protection proceedings concerning a 93 year old woman with severe dementia as to (a) whether the care arrangements for her constitute a deprivation of her liberty; (b) if so, whether the State is responsible for such deprivation of liberty; and (c) if so, then whether such deprivation of liberty should be authorised by the court and what the arrangements for continuing authorisation should be. Held that there is no deprivation of liberty.
Fact finding in care proceedings.
The Court of Appeal dismissed D’s appeal of HHJ Vosper QC’s decision that D was holding a property on trust for C and herself in equal shares
