Case Summaries

Fact finding involving the unexplained death of, and multiple injuries to, a seven-month old baby.

Final hearing in financial remedy proceedings where parties had been married for seven years, involving total assets of about £4m, half of which were nor accessible for some years.

Residence dispute in which the father contended that the Portuguese court (which had been seised of the proceedings) retained jurisdiction whereas the mother wished the English courts to determine the matter.

Dispute concerning repayment of capital sums (plus interest) which the appellant had paid for, inter alia, substantial works at the Respondent’s property at a time when the parties’ had been cohabiting.

Care proceedings where the parents’ second child had been removed at birth after the first child, who suffered from rickets, had died. The parents had been charged and cleared of his death. Held that the parents were not responsible for the death. The second child was ordered to be returned to the parents.

Final hearing of a financial remedy application in a complex big money case

Care proceedings concerning a family of five children, three of whom have serious complex disabilities. Care proceedings withdrawn and the three children made wards of court pending review.

Court of Appeal judgment on appeal from the making of a s91(14) order. Appeal allowed.

Judgment, following a fact finding judgment, in financial remedy proceedings as to the division of assets, in some of which the Official Receiver had claimed an interest.

Appeal by parents against care and placement orders on the grounds of procedural unfairness. Appeal allowed.

M granted permission to remove the child permanently to Tanzania despite a contrary recommendation by Cafcass.

Permission to appeal granted and appeal dismissed in respect of a mother of a child removed by local authority on the grounds that the mother had breached undertakings to live in a refuge and not to communicate with the father.

Appeal by local authority against the dismissal of care proceedings in respect of three children where the facts relied upon by the authority were findings in earlier proceedings involving the mother in which the perpetrator of harm to her child had not been identified. Appeal dismissed.

Further judgment in respect of a child removed by the mother to Poland. Residence order made in favour of the mother with contact to the father in both Poland and the UK.

Judgment of Court of Appeal relating to financial orders made following the dissolution of a Civil Partnership

Father’s appeal against findings of sexual abuse against him. Appeal dismissed.