Case Summaries

Second appeal against decision to make final care order placing a child into long term foster care. (The Court of Appeal examines the welfare balancing exercise needed before making a final care order and the scrutiny expected from a circuit judge in care proceedings appeals)

Fact-finding hearing concerning causation of injuries to child’s back – further consideration of whether case should be transferred to Slovakia under Art 15 BIIR

Issue of jurisdiction arising in care proceedings – consideration of whether Court had jurisdiction under Articles 8 or 13(1) BIIR – whether to transfer case pursuant to Article 15

Case concerning whether a police force could apply for a person to be committed to prison for contempt of court for breach of a forced marriage protection order (FMPO) in circumstances when the police had not been the applicants who obtained the order

Local Authority appeal against declaration that its policy on payments to family and friends foster carers was unlawful

Application by maternal grandmother for adoption orders in respect of two children aged 9 and 3, following the murder of the mother by the father

Judgment determining the wish of the parents of a 16 year old who had previously been made a ward of court, to be able to discuss the case with the media

Grandmother’s appeal allowed, care order set aside and re-hearing ordered, because the Judge at first instance had failed to analyse the benefits and detriments of the placement options for a child and the Local Authority had failed to provide such evidence.

Care proceedings in the High Court involving Slovakian Central Authority and operation of Article 56 of EC Council Regulation 2201/2003

Welfare hearing following fact-finding and concerning residence and contact in respect of a 5 year old child. Shared residence order discharged and replaced with a sole residence order in respect of the father with contact orders in favour of the mother.

Fact-finding hearing of a mother’s allegations against a father of violence and failure to protect their child from abuse. Allegations not found.

Finding of fact hearing in care proceedings concerning six children of three different mothers; complex web of familial abuse; enmeshed and dependent family members lacking ability to protect the children from predatory members of the family.

Welfare hearing concerning two children following a fact-finding hearing.

Care proceedings appeal in which Court of Appeal gives guidance on the proper construction of Article 15 of the Regulation Brussels II Bis.

Summary of judgment in care proceedings involving two children whose parents and grandmother had been killed.

Judgment concerning the media reporting of care proceedings concerning two children whose parents and grandmother had been killed.