Case Summaries

Application by wife for indemnity costs followings findings amounting to serious litigation misconduct by the husband and respondent companies in proceedings under Part III of the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984. Applications granted.

Judgment in high-profile case in which the wife had applied for the full range of financial remedies and the husband had applied for variation of a maintenance pending suit order. Order made for payment by the husband of a lump sum of £20m. Husband’s application dismissed.

Care proceedings concerning a child whose identity had been concealed by an elaborate deception by the people whom he believed to be his parents. Supervision order granted.

Judgment of the Court of Appeal on an appeal from an order that a child, D, aged rising 2, should have his name changed.

Application by the father for the summary return of his son, brought to this jurisdiction from Spain by his mother. Defence under Art 13(b) of the Hague Convention raised. Application granted.

Judgment in respect of four children whom the father had been ordered to return to the jurisdiction from Pakistan. Interim care order made.

Judgment in final hearing in Section 31 proceedings to determine the legal basis for placement of two girls. Special guardianship orders made.

Wife’s application in financial remedy proceedings to remove a litigation friend who had been appointed by the court to act for a husband who lacked capacity

Applications by father to discharge care orders in respect of his six children. Applications dismissed.

Mother’s appeal against a ruling that the English court had jurisdiction in respect of her child who was habitually resident in Sweden

Judgment relating to committal for contempt arising from the breach by a mother of a collection order made in care proceedings.

Sentencing judgment in respect of committal for contempt of three members of family of a woman, who had removed her daughter from the jurisdiction, for their failure to divulge the whereabouts of the child.

Judgment of remitted hearing, following order of the Supreme Court, as to whether the youngest of four children should be returned to England from Pakistan.

Suspended order for committal of father for contempt following his failure to comply with an order to file a Form E in proceedings brought by the mother for support of their children.

Appeal by wife against an order setting aside an order in financial remedy proceedings on the basis of counsel’s conflict of interest. Appeal allowed, order set aside and original order restored.

Appeal by parents as to findings of fact made within care proceedings in which hearsay evidence had been adduced