Local authority’s application for permission to appeal against decision to adjourn final hearing for ten weeks to obtain an additional report on the mother’s progress in a course of work advised by the consultant clinical psychologist. Permission granted but appeal dismissed.
Wardship proceedings brought by mother, stranded in Pakistan with no right to re-enter the UK.
Application by mother for financial provision under Schedule 1 to the Children act 1989; and application by father for stay of proceedings. Stay refused and award of circa £182,000 made.
Applications by the local authority (i) under the inherent jurisdiction for permission not to disclose to the mother the care plan for her unborn child, namely to remove the child at birth; and (ii) a reporting restrictions order to prohibit a publication of the above application, the hearing of the same and the order made by the court. Applications gratntd.
Hearing of mother’s application to transfer care proceedings to Latvia. Application refused.
Application by Cafcass for safeguarding checks to be completed on step-father of children subject to private law proceedings – consideration of general principles applicable to the question of whether there should be safeguarding checks of family members who were not parties to proceedings.
Appeal against orders in wardship proceedings in which the judge found that the child was habitually resident in this jurisdiction, made a return order and subsequently committed the father to prison for failure to comply with the return order. The Court of Appeal upheld the judge’s finding on habitual residence and the resulting return order but criticised the committal process and ordered the father’s immediate release from custody.
Appeal by a mother and her mother and step father ‘the maternal grandparents’ against care and placement orders
Appeal by the mother against care orders with care plans for placement with the father.
Grandmother appealed case management decision to refuse her party status. Appeal allowed, care and placement orders set aside, case remitted for re-hearing.
Application, within divorce proceedings in which the jurisdiction of the English court is disputed, by husband for an order requiring his wife to redact a statement which referred to an occasion which the husband maintained was a without prejudice meeting. Application dismissed.
Appeal in care proceedings against findings of fact which, the mother claimed, were made in circumstances where there had been exhibited judicial bias. Appeal allowed.
Judgment in Hague Convention proceedings, explaining why child should participate as a party to proceedings and considering the committal of mother for breach of order to return children to Spain. Application for committal dismissed.
A Local Authority was ordered to pay costs for a hearing to consider re-timetabling following its failure to comply with directions
Application in Court of Protection for declarations and orders in relation to the care and health of a pregnant woman during the final stage of her pregnancy and in the safe delivery of the unborn baby
Successful appeal from a care order and placement order when the appellant mother was in prison because of an inadequate consideration in the judgment of the consequences of adoption for the subject child
