Case Summaries

These proceedings were in the High Court, before Mr Justice Keehan.

This judgment was published by Her Honour Judge Moreton sitting in the Family Court at Teeside. The court was concerned with an application made by the wife for contempt in the context of their financial remedy proceedings. This case was reported on 8 May 2025.

This case concerns an application by the mother for the setting aside of an order for the summary return pursuant to the 1980 Hague Convention to Poland of two children referred to in the judgment as T (aged 9) and H (aged 6).

This case concerns a case management application by AX ((hereafter “the mother”) and DA (hereafter “the father”) pursuant to FPR 2010 r.25.9(2) for a direction that the single joint experts, Neuroradiologist), Paediatric Neurosurgeon, Paediatric Radiologist, Obstetrician, Geneticist and Consultant Paediatrician shall attend to give oral evidence on the grounds that it is necessary for them to do so in the interests of justice. 

This case concerns an application by B’s parents’ for a declaration that B lacks capacity to consent to gender affirming treatment which she is currently receiving. B is 17 years old.

Care proceedings involving, inter alia, 2 children whose father is an unregulated sperm donor. Judgment considering, amongst other things, what role he should play in their lives.

In Z Local Authority v SC, the court was tasked with determining whether two teenagers should be removed from their adoptive father into foster care, where such a move would be harmful and obstructed by the children, or permitting the children to remain with their adoptive father notwithstanding significant and ongoing substance misuse.

The High Court grants the local authority permission to contact extended family members of the child relinquished for adoption despite the parents’ objections.

This case concerns a finding of fact in private law children proceedings involving three children aged 5, 12 and almost 15 and a final hearing in respect of an application for a non-molestation order.

This case concerns a father’s application for contact and parental responsibility of K, aged 4.

These proceedings were conducted by Mrs Justice Judd sitting in the High Court. The application was in respect of an adoption order for a child referred to as ‘B’ who was born in Sierra Leone and adopted there by the applicants in 2019 whilst living in UAE.

Appeal by local authority from finding in care proceedings that injuries to child had occurred during an assault by his father on the mother, rather than in a later event. Appeal allowed

This case concerns an appeal by the mother of a decision which ordered summary return of her two children D and A to Nigeria.

This was a judgment where the judge refused to make an order depriving the child, referred to as ‘LB’ of her liberty.

This case concerns an application by the mother for G dated 6 October 2024 for G, who has been living in the United States with F since August 2024, to be returned to England.

Fact-finding in care proceedings, concerning cause of injuries to child. Local authority applied to withdraw, at the end of the expert evidence.