Case Summaries

Judgment in respect of a declaration that it was lawful for doctors treating a seriously ill baby boy to discontinue life-sustaining treatment and to provide him with palliative treatment only.

Judgment determining that the English courts had jurisdiction to hear care proceedings concerning a 16 month old girl, who was an Albanian citizen without a regularised immigration status in the UK.

Appeal from a decision to refuse a father’s application under the Hague Child Abduction Convention 1980 for the summary return of his daughter to Lithuania. Appeal dismissed.

A mother’s out of time application for permission to appeal care and placement orders, which depended upon the court admitting fresh evidence. Permission refused.

Application by respondent husband to set aside a grant of leave under Part III of the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984 to apply for financial relief under that Part. Application dismissed.

Application by father within care proceedings concerning two Roma children that a district court in the Czech Republic assume jurisdiction pursuant to Article 15 of Brussels II Revised. Apllication granted.

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