Case Summaries

Appeal by father against finding that he had injured his baby son the day after his birth. Appeal dismissed.

Application by mother for permission to appeal, with appeal to follow, order allowing removal of children to short term foster care. Application granted and appeal allowed.

Intractable contact dispute. Appeal against the conditions included in a contact order. Appeal allowed.

Appeal against a contact order in favour of father concerning a 4 1/2 month old child. Appeal allowed.

Appeal against an order transferring residence from the mother to the father. Appeal dismissed.

Judgment in high value ancillary relief case involving consideration of whether a clean break can be achieved where that outcome would be funded through the family company. A clean break was rejected and a lump sum and periodical payments awarded.

Application by deputy for order authorising him to execute a statutory will. Order granted.

Appeals against finding of fact that a father had stabbed a mother, refusals to to allow permission to appeal, a residence order in favour of the mother and a finding that the threshold criteria under the Children Act 1989 section 31 had not been met. Appeals dismissed.

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.