Case Summaries

Appeal by parents against s.34(4) Children Act 1989 order permitting the local authority to refuse contact. Appeal allowed.

Application for permission to appeal the making of a placement order for adoption which did not include an order for contact with the paternal family where all parties had agreed that contact should continue. Permission granted.

Care proceedings in which contradictory hair strand tests for drug use arose – Court’s endorsement of principles relating to hair strand testing but declining to provide further guidance or enquire as to the causes of mistakes in the case.

Contact proceedings where allegations of abuse by the father had been made to a local authority by a third party who did not want their identity or the details of the allegations to be disclosed.

Appeal from dismissal of an application by trustees of pension funds to recover monies paid to the wife after an ancillary relief order, in circumstances where the husband had fraudulently appropriated the funds from the pension funds

Application for permission to appeal an order relating to the beneficial interest of the former family home. Permission to appeal granted only as to the amount of occupation rent to be paid by the occupying party.

Judgment concerning reporting restrictions in family remedy proceedings. Order prohibited disclosure of any information in respect of the proceedings save for certain specified matters.

Action claiming that there was a constructive trust affecting all property held in the name of the claimant’s son arising from the Hindu Joint Family System and the principles of Mitakshara and that his interest in that trust had been severed.

Application for permission to appeal interim care orders subsequent and Special Guardianship Orders relating to two children; permission granted.

Judgment of the Court of Appeal concerning the interpretation and application of Article 23(a) of Brussels IIR and the issue of dual habitual residence.

Committal proceedings and judgment summons relating to breaches of orders for the payment of child maintenance. Sentence of one year’s imprisonment imposed, suspended on terms.

Appeal concerning a claim based upon proprietary estoppel by a son in connection with his father’s farm

Appeal by the child to set aside an order under the Hague Convention 1980 to which she had originally consented. As no issues had been previously adjudicated on the matter the proceedings were remitted to the Family Division.

Financial remedy case where the husband contended that there should be a departure from equality on the basis of contributions and post-separation growth of a company formed during the marriage.

Applications for declarations of beneficial interests in a number of properties by various family members of the husband, such claims being opposed by a receiver appointed to enforce a confiscation order.