Case Summaries

Application for permission to appeal by guardian against a decision by justices to grant an interim care order to the local authority who intended to move the child to alternative foster carers pending a final hearing. Appeal dismissed.

Supplemental judgment arising from applications concerning use of irregularly obtained confidential information in ancillary relief proceedings. This judgment concerns the forms of the relevant orders, costs, further directions and permission to appeal.

Judgment arising from applications concerning disclosure of information about the medical evidence presented in care proceedings and the anonymity of the expert witnesses where the parents had been exonerated as perpetrators of non-accidental injury. The judge ruled that s12 of the Administration of Justice Act can be disapplied and rejected applications for anonymity of the professionals involved to be preserved.

Judicial review application where the claimant, a 17 year old girl, submitted that the local authority had failed to assess her needs under s17 of the Children Act 1989 and failed to have proper regard to their welfare duties under s11 of the Children Act 2004. Application failed.

Application for permission to appeal against finding that a ceremony in South Africa did not constitute a marriage. Application refused.

Judgment concerning applications in ancillary relief proceedings arising from potential use and retention of irregularly obtained, confidential information.

Judgment arising from a complex family dispute involving family businesses and properties including applications under the Trusts of Land and Appointment of Trustees Act 1996 (TOLATA) concerning beneficial interests and occupation rent with regard to the main family home.

Application for permission to appeal, with appeal to follow, refusal to overturn liabilities under orders for maintenance pending suit on the grounds that the petition in this jurisdiction had been withdrawn.

Reasons for dismissal of appeal and renewed application for permission to appeal by parents against orders made in care proceedings concerning a refusal to allow instruction of medical experts.

Matrimonial finance case in which Singer J considers the extent to which the Husband’s interests under trusts should properly be taken into account in assessing the parties’ assets.

Application by sister to be joined as a defendant in Hague Proceedings concerning her brother. Application granted.

Judgment arising from an application to find that a marriage conducted in Bangladesh was not capable of being recognised in the United Kingdom. A declaration in these terms was made.

Appeal by mother against finding that she had been a possible perpetrator of harm to her eldest child which subsequently led to the removal of her second child. Appeal allowed and remitted for hearing before a different judge.

Appeal concerning proper approach re. application for costs by one parent against the other at the end of a bespoke fact-finding hearing within contact proceedings. Appeal allowed and Respondent ordered to pay two thirds of the costs of the hearing before the District Judge.

Deprivation of liberty case involving lack of capacity in which Munby LJ gives guidance on court reviews, and internal reviews in such cases.