Case Summaries

Local Authority application for a supervision order in respect of a child, who it had been decided could remain in the care of his mother, with the appropriate support to be given to her to care for him in the light of her learning disabilities.

Local Authority application for a supervision order in respect of a child

Judgment in fact finding hearing concerning a number of injuries to a 30 day old baby

Welfare hearing following fact finding hearing. Consideration of mother’s application for further assessment.

Appeal against variation of interim contact and "findings" made within contact application.

Permission to appeal given to husband appealing a District Judge’s financial remedy order. (Guidance given as to test to be applied when permission to appeal sought and re principle of equality in ancillary relief applications)

Application for declaration of parentage, with cross application for step parent responsibility, residence and contact.

Fact Finding hearing to consider whether a couple who had returned to the UK with a baby from Nigeria was aware that the woman had undergone a staged labour and that the child was not biologically theirs

Application for permission to apply to adopt a child where the child had not lived with the applicants for three years out of the five preceding the application and the child’s visa to the UK had expired. Permission refused.

Application under s.24(1)(c) MCA 1973 for variation of a post nuptial settlement (Mostyn J’s judgment includes guidance regarding the issue of joinder of Trustees in variation of settlement cases)

Appeal concerning beneficial ownership of property held on discretionary trust.

Court of Protection judgment concerning (1) whether the question of capacity is issue specific or person specific and (2) the relationship between capacity to marry and capacity to cohabit.

Appeal by mother against an interim care order which sanctioned the continued removal of her 4 month old baby from her care. Appeal allowed and an interim supervision order substituted.

Husband’s appeal against refusal of his application to strike out ex-wife’s financial remedies claim which had been made over 18 years after decree absolute

Appeal of placement order on the basis that it had not been permissible for the local authority to go to its adoption panel, or for the Court to make a placement order, in circumstances where the child was not subject of an interim care order but accommodated under s 20.

Successful judicial review of the Legal Aid Agency’s decision to refuse to pay the full costs of a parenting assessment within public law proceedings.