Hearing under the OS v DS preliminary issue procedure to determine whether a charitable trust relating to the protection of Chinese tigers was a post-nuptial settlement capable of variation within financial remedy proceedings
Application by a father for the recognition and enforcement, pursuant to the European Convention on Recognition and Enforcement of Decisions Concerning Custody of Children and on Restoration of Custody of Children, of a custody order made in Turkey. Application dismissed.
Wife’s application seeking the Husband’s committal for failure to pay sums due by way of periodical payments ordered
Application for discharge of a location order because of a failure to comply with the terms of the order requiring that service of the order be effected by the Tipstaff
Appeal to the Court of Appeal against an order requiring the Appellant to pay £28,500 to the Respondent to satisfy her equitable interest in a property under the doctrine of proprietary estoppel
Sentencing hearing before the President in respect of contempt of court conviction for breaching orders following care proceedings
Care proceedings before Cobb J involving consideration of whether the English court had jurisdiction to make orders in respect of a Romanian child
Appeal to Court of Appeal against dismissal of leave to remove application –appeal dismissed and held, inter alia, that applications under s.8 Children Act 1989 do not require Family Courts to undertake a human rights proportionality evaluation, distinguishing private children law from public children law in that respect.
Appeal by mother against placement orders in respect of the youngest three children of a sibling group of nine. Appeal dismissed.
Application for adoption of child who had lived with the applicants from babyhood on an informal basis
Application by an NHS trust to withdraw the mechanically assisted ventilation for a baby of 17 months who had suffered irreversible injury to the brain. Application granted.
Dispute concerning a five year old child in which the child’s grandmother who was based in the Czech Republic, contended that the child’s mother had unlawfully retained the child in England
Application by mother of an 8 month old child for permission to oppose the adoption application by local authority. Application refused.
Appeal brought by maternal grandparents against an order authorising the local authority to place their four grandchildren for adoption. Appeal dismissed.
Father’s application for permission to remove son from the jurisdiction for a short holiday to Dubai with mother’s cross-application for a prohibited steps order.
Fact finding in relation to allegations of mistreatment of a vulernable adult by his parents. Counter allegations made by the parents against the local authority and medical professions.
