Case Summaries

Application for permission to appeal, with appeal to follow, refusal to grant separate representation for a 14 year old child who is the subject of contact proceedings in Norway and Hague Convention proceedings here. Appeal allowed.

Application by biological parent seeking contact and parental responsibility for his son who is now part of the applicant’s sister’s same sex family. No parental responsibility order made and a limited contact order granted.

Application by local authority for permission to appeal order allowing a further period of residential assessment for a family subject to a care plan. Application refused.

Appeal by wife in the Privy Council against overturning of an order by the Court of Appeal of Antigua and Barbuda giving her a half share of the former matrimonial home, its furniture and some shares. Appeal allowed in respect of the house and furniture.

This is a coda to a previous judgment (Re MM (an adult) [2007] EWHC 2003 (Fam)) concerning the care plan relating to MM, a sexually active adult who had been found to lack capacity to make decisions about where she lived but did have capacity to consent to sexual relations.

Appeal by foster mother against a refusal to allow her leave to apply to adopt a child currently in her care. Appeal allowed.

Judgment in proceedings where a widow was seeking a beneficial interest in a house, which she had apparently relinquished by agreement in favour of the couple’s children following the breakdown of her marriage. Judge found that she had relinquished any beneficial interest.

Judgment in proceedings concerning the parentage and future upbringing of a child born out of a non-commercial surrogacy arrangement where the commissioning parents are domiciled in Turkey

Application by father for permission to appeal, with appeal to follow, findings of fact in a case concerning alleged sexual abuse. Application refused.

Appeal by father against a finding that contact orders made in the Romanian Courts between 2006 & 2007 were unenforceable in the UK under Brussels II Revised as Romania did not join the EU until 1 January 2007. Appeal dismissed.

Application for permission to appeal, with appeal to follow, findings that the applicant’s (AP) children were at significant risk of harm under s31(2) of the Children Act 1989. Application and appeal allowed.

Appeal by local authority against refusal to strike out part of a claim for damages over alleged breaches of duty of care owed by a local authority when investigating a parent suspected of sexual abuse. Appeal allowed.

Schedule to the main judgment in A Council v B & Others setting out the approach adopted by Charles J with regards to the standard of proof in this fact-finding judgment.

Appeal by mother against a care order proposing that her son should live with the maternal grandparents and contact should only be under local authority supervision while she undertakes a course of therapy. Appeal dismissed.

Judgment involving ancillary relief and proceeds of crime proceedings where the Crown was seeking to enforce a confiscation order of £571,000 and the wife was seeking a financial settlement.

Judgment after fact finding hearing in care proceedings arising from allegations of domestic violence and sexual abuse.