Case Summaries

Local Authority application for a declaration, inter alia, as to the capacity to marry and deal with complex financial matters of one of three brothers.

Appeal by father against an order for no direct contact between him and his three children. Appeal dismissed.

Appeal within ancillary relief proceedings where the family assets had arisen from a substantial damages award from a personal injury claim brought in the Queen’s Bench Division.

Ancillary relief proceedings. Wife sought equal division of assets. Husband argued that the Wife should receive only 25% on the basis of a ‘very significant post-separation accrual’. Wife awarded 40% of assets.

Application for permission to appeal in the context of fiercely fought fresh ancillary relief proceedings following the setting aside of the original consent order due to non-disclosure in the original proceedings.

Applications by local authority (1) to put the facts of children proceedings into the public domain in order to counteract misleading information already disseminated by the mother and others; and (2) for a s 91(14) order against the mother. Both orders granted by the President who explained the background of the case.

Application by local authority to have the respondents committed to prison for contempt. In this judgment the President explains why he found Ms Watson in contempt.

Application for permission to appeal against interim care order and against findings of fact that the appellant had been violent and bullying. Applications dismissed.

Appeal centring on whether the court or a local authority can compel reluctant parents to disclose to their children their father’s previous convictions for sexual assault on children from his first marriage.

Appeal made by a child and supported by the local authority seeking to set aside findings of fact made within care proceedings.

Mother’s application for permission to appeal findings of fact in respect of injuries to her daughter.

If the Coalition Government’s proposals proceed then low income tenants on Local Housing Allowance will become increasingly segregated from the better off in London

Appeal from a judgment of Baker J. making an award of costs at the conclusion of proceedings in the Court of Protection.

Widow’s application challenging her deceased husband’s will and claiming interim relief under s.5 Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975 in the form of a lump sum and an order permitting her to reside in the former matrimonial home pending determination of her claims.

Appeal by a father against an order refusing an assessment of him in the context of care proceedings concerning three children.