Case Summaries

Appeal by firm of solicitors against wasted costs order arising from divorce proceedings. Appeal allowed.

Appeal by mother against committal order arising from contact proceedings. Appeal allowed.

Appeal by grandmother of decision by circuit judge to overturn residence order, made in the FPC, in her favour for one in favour of the father. Appeal dismissed.

Appeal by wife against a decision that the fall in property prices necessitated a revaluation of the husband’s lump sum obligations on a Barder basis. Appeal allowed.

Application for permission to appeal by father against care and other orders involving cultural issues and where the mother was in jail. Application refused.

Appeal by father against findings of fact in care proceedings also involving consideration of the proper approach to fact finding hearing following Re B [2008] UKHL35. Appeal allowed.

Judgment concerning jurisdiction arising from contact applications made by a mother where the father and child lived in Pakistan.

The text of this judgment has been temporarily withdrawn for further consideration by the judge

Application for permission to appeal, with appeal to follow, by father against a refusal to order summary return of a child under the Hague Convention and Brussels II Revised. Application refused.

Appeal by mother against a residence order in favour of the father where the child wished to return to his mother and the CAFCASS officer recommended the same. Appeal allowed on a majority, Ward LJ dissenting.

Application by mother for permission to appeal, with appeal to follow, an order for unsupervised contact by their father to her two youngest children. Application and appeal allowed.

Application by husband in ancillary relief proceedings seeking to vary an order that required security for costs before an application for permission to appeal would be considered. The deadline for providing security was extended.

Reasons given for refusal for permission to appeal against an order allowing doctor’s to stop medical treatment on a 10 month old child. Permission at the hearing was refused.

Judgment in ancillary relief proceedings arising from a refusal of permission to appeal where the wife was seeking to set aside a consent order because of the husband’s non-disclosure.

Judgment arising from application by a local authority for continued publicity restrictions in a case where a claim that a 12 year old boy had fathered a child to a 15 year old mother had already received wide media coverage. Application refused.