Case Summaries

Appeal against care and related placement orders. Appeal allowed and matter sent for retrial.

Application by father, under the Hague Convention and the inherent jurisdiction of the court, for the return of two children (X & Y) to Canada, one of whom (Y) was unborn at the time of the removal. Application relating to X successful.

Appeal against sentence imposed under Part IV of the Family Law Act 1996. Appeal allowed.

Judgment in care proceedings where the local authority was seeking to prove the mother’s care of a seriously disabled child breached the s31(2) threshold criteria. Application successful.

Appeal by wife seeking to set aside a declaration that the transfer of her ex-husband’s beneficial interest in a matrimonial property was a transaction at an undervalue. Appeal allowed.

Appeal by mother against decision, under Hague Convention proceedings, requiring return of the children to Zimbabwe following their wrongful removal to England. Appeal allowed.

Appeal by mother against a judgment requiring the local authority to investigate the possibility of finding a carer for her child, conceived after a one night stand, from within her own or the father’s family when she expressly stated that she wanted the child adopted. Appeal allowed.

Appeal against dismissal of beneficial interest claims under s14 of the Trusts of Land and Appointments of Trustee Act 1996. Appeal dismissed.

Appeal by husband against an order in ancillary relief proceedings adjusting a previous order in favour of the wife. Appeal allowed.

Application for permission to appeal a decision that prevented the applicants from allowing experts and their legal representative to interview their children in connection with criminal charges now facing the parents. Appeal allowed in part.

Judgment in contested contact and residence proceedings.

Application by the wife to bring a second appeal in ancillary relief proceedings. Application granted.

Application for permission to appeal out of time an order in ancillary relief proceedings. Application refused.

Application by a local authority under the inherent jurisdiction of the court for directions as to the future of a vulnerable person who has been in care and has now reached 18.

Appeal against dismissal of an application to a judge to recuse himself from ancillary relief proceedings. Appeal allowed.

Appeal by local authority against decision to grant the mother leave to apply for revocation of placement orders made on her two children. Appeal allowed and applications refused.