Financial remedy proceedings between a husband and a wife in which a company, closely connected to the husband but which he did not own, paid £500,000 into court. That sum was ordered to be paid to the wife as a first instalment of a lump sum. Held that the court had no jurisdiction to make that order.
Appeal of judgment from fact finding hearing in care proceedings.
Appeal from the judgment of Parker J in what Munby LJ described as “exceptionally difficult adoption proceedings” concerning a one year old baby where the mother feared so called “honour-based” violence and/or rejection by her family should her relationship with the father and her pregnancy be discovered.
Proceedings concerning contact with two children living with biological mother and partner, who have parental responsibility for them, in same-sex relationship. Held that contact with the biological father and his same-sex partner should be direct in respect of one child and indirect in respect of the other.
Appeal in financial remedy proceedings against termed maintenance order. Appeal successful.
Father’s appeal against refusal to grant permission to apply for judicial review of decision by NHS Trust not to investigate father’s complaint about psychiatrist who gave evidence in family proceedings. Appeal dismissed.
Judgment on an appeal brought in the course of proceedings for nullity.
Father’s appeal against a child maintenance formula assessment and against a departure direction in relation to child support for his daughter, now aged 14.
Appeal against District Judge’s order in financial remedy proceedings where the appeal was essentially a challenge to the District Judge’s findings of fact. In light of a number of errors in principle the order would be set aside in its entirety and a retrial would be directed.
Appeal to High Court from County Court in financial remedy proceedings where there were only modest assets.
Dispute as to whether for the purposes of English divorce and connected proceedings, a Talaq pronounced by the respondent husband in Saudi Arabia and placed by Deed of Confirmation before the Sharia Court was entitled to be afforded recognition in this jurisdiction.
Application to the Court of Appeal in the context of care proceedings concerning refusal of the father’s application to instruct a second expert.
Application for parental orders in respect of children born to two women in India under surrogacy agreements. The President held that whilst payments under the agreements did not comply with the HFEA 2008 section 54, they were not disproportionate and granted the orders sought.
Appeal brought on behalf of three separately represented children in the context of their father’s application for their return to Poland under the 1980 Hague Abduction Convention and Article 11 of Brussels IIR.
Court of Protection proceedings concerning the appointment of a patient’s Relevant Person’s Representative as his litigation friend in a challenge to a deprivation of the patient’s liberty pursuant to s.21A Mental Capacity Act 2005.
Appeal from a refusal to grant a return order under the Hague Convention. The mother had asserted an Art 13b ‘defence’. Appeal allowed.
