Case Summaries

Judgment by the President of the Family Division following a retrial of an application by a local authority for care and placement orders.

Third judgment in financial remedy proceedings in which Mostyn J rejects an application for post-judgment relief.

Appeal by husband against an order in financial remedy proceedings that a lump sum or series of lump sums should be paid to the wife as and when the husband’s shareholding was realised. Appeal dismissed.

Fact finding hearing concerning four children, in which a wasted costs order was made against the mother’s solicitors.

Consideration of a mother’s application to relocate the child to Hong Kong. Application refused.

Successful appeal by wife against the strike out of a variation of maintenance application for abuse of process and of enforcement of child maintenance arrears for offending principle of res judicata.

Return hearing of wife’s without notice application for a freezing order in respect of her husband’s vintage Bentley motorcar. Sir Peter Singer directed that the Bentley be placed in the custody of W’s agents to be transported to England and kept here pending the outcome of applications relating to previous MPS and legal services orders.

Application for an adoption order in respect of the child A by his biological father B where B had entered into a surrogacy arrangement with his own mother. Order granted.

Appeal by local authority against the dismissal of its applications for a care order and placement for adoption order. Appeal dismissed.

Appeal by father against prohibited steps orders requiring him to refrain from involving children in political activities. Appeal allowed and matter sent for rehearing.

Judgment from the President of the Family Division, reminding practitioners of the importance of following Practice Direction 27A in respect of the preparation of Court bundles.

Appeal against supervision orders allowed on basis that there should have been further assessment of the parents

Appeal in public law children proceedings, by father whose main arguments revolved around the judge’s treatment of the evidence of a clinical psychologist which he said had been allowed to assume disproportionate importance. Appeal dismissed.

Application by NHS foundation trust fordeclarations in relation to a child who has been declared clinically dead but remained ventilated. Consideration as to the respective jurisdictions of the coroner and the High Court.

Successful appeal from a peremptory dismissal of an application for DNA testing by a 13 year old child on the basis she had been deprived of a fair hearing

Second judgment in financial remedy proceedings in which Mostyn J discusses the court’s approach to (a) an inheritance received by the wife shortly before separation and (b) post separation accrual in the hands of the husband.