Case Summaries

Husband’s application within financial remedies proceedings for the wife’s father to be excluded from court during part of the cross-examination of the wife.

Financial remedies case involving consideration of the weight to be attributed to a pre-marital agreement as well as whether the hearing should take place in public

Fact finding hearing in private law proceedings brought by the father for contact. Allegations made by parents against each other.

Application for leave to apply for an adoption order in respect of a child who is 17: s.42 Adoption and Children Act 2002.

Application by father for contact with his child who was living with the mother and her civil partner. Dispute as to whether the father intended only to be a sperm donor.

Appeal involving consideration of Article 15 Brussels II Revised and when requests to member states to assume jurisdiction ought to be made

Financial remedies case in which the Husband contended that the parties were bound by a Dutch pre-marital agreement and the wife argued for a compensatory payment by virtue of her having given up a high powered career

Judgment in long-running private law children proceedings involving issues of parental responsibility, residence and contact in respect of twin boys, detailing the measures which helped to resolve it.

Appeal by wife in financial remedy proceedings where the court had ordered payment by the husband, in three instalments, of a capitalised sum of £300,000 in lieu of periodical payments; appeal as to the staging of the instalments. Appeal allowed and order varied to effect the husband’s offer to make continuing periodical payments.

Application by wife for committal of husband for contempt of court arising from his failure to comply with financial remedy orders. Contempt proved and committal to prison ordered but suspended pending payment of outstanding sums to the wife.

Sentencing remarks of Keehan J in case involving contempt of court by maternal grandfather in proceedings involving a 3 month old baby who had been unlawfully removed from the jurisdiction

Application by local authority in which it was alleged that grandparents were in contempt of court for not providing relevant information and/or securing the return of a baby who had been removed from the jurisdiction

Judgment approving an agreed order compromising a claim for remedies under s.8 Human Rights Act 1998, which included a sum in damages, for alleged breaches of a party’s rights under Articles 5 and 8 ECHR.

Application by father on the basis of a change of circumstances caused by judgments in Re B and Re B-S for (i) permission to oppose the making of an adoption order and/or (ii) stay of the application pending determination of his application to the ECtHR. Permission to oppose the adoption order granted and consequently application for stay dismissed as unnecessary.

Appeal by husband against an order that the court in England and Wales has jurisdiction to entertain a divorce petition issued by his wife on the grounds, he claimed, that neither party was habitually resident or domiciled in the jurisdiction on the date that it was issued. Appeal dismissed.

Appeal by a mother against the interim removal of her newborn baby