Case Summaries

Renewed application by father for permission to appeal finding that he had stabbed his children’s mother. Application allowed.

Appeal by father, who was imprisoned for breaches of an injunction in care proceedings not to contact any of his daughters who were still minors, against refusal to order immediate discharge from prison . Appeal dismissed.

Costs judgment arising out of complex litigation over family businesses which had involved issues of quantum meruit, determination of beneficial interests in the family home and related occupation rent.

Application for judicial review of a decision by a local authority to cease to consider that a child was looked after once he had been accommodated in a special needs residential school. Application refused.

Application by father for permission to appeal, with appeal to follow, care order. Application granted and appeal allowed.

Appeal by mother against care and placement orders. Appeal allowed and proceedings returned for re-hearing by the same judge.

Appeal by CMEC against ruling that an order made in the magistrates’ court banning a driver for 12 months, suspended if he paid £5 a week in child maintenance, was out of time under the Limitation Act 1980. Appeal allowed.

Appeal against refusal to allow the Official Solicitor to appoint an expert child and family psychiatrist when acting as guardian for parents in care proceedings. Appeal allowed.

Appeal by the Official Solicitor against order allowing the press limited access to hearings under the Mental Capacity Act 2005 involving a gifted, well known but severely disabled adult. Appeal dismissed.

Judgment arising from enforcement of a charging order against the matrimonial home where the wife had forged the husband’s signature on a mortgage. An order for possession and sale under section 14 of TLATA was made in favour of the bank.

Application by mother for permission to appeal, with appeal to follow, an interim care order. Application refused.

Renewed application for permission to appeal against refusal to grant a father permission to apply for judicial review against Cafcass arising out of his dissatisfaction with the service’s performance in private law proceedings. Application refused.

Application by parents for permission to appeal, with appeal to follow, against refusal to set aside a judgment concerning findings that the mother of a child by a previous father had injured her first eldest daughter. Application granted but appeal dismissed.

Application by mother for permission to appeal, with appeal to follow, interim care orders made to allow for assessment away from the mother’s home. Application dismissed.

Supplementary judgment to S(A Child) EWCA Civ 325 clarifying termination of the interim care order.