Case Summaries

This was an application by Portsmouth NHS Trust for a costs order against Mr and Mrs W relating to proceedings concerning the medical treatment of W, their child. A costs order of nothing was awarded.

This was an appeal by the father against an order in proceedings under s15 of the Children Act 1989 for full financial provision for his daughter, S, centering on the amount needed for a housing fund. The appeal was allowed.

This was an application for permission to appeal, with appeal to follow, by a father against the finding of the trial judge concerning allegations of sexual abuse made by the mother. Permission was granted but the appeal dismissed.

This was a second appeal in a case where the appellant husband had issued divorce proceedings in France and the respondent wife responded by issuing proceedings under the Trusts of Land and Appointment of Trustees Act 1996 concerning a portfolio of properties owned by the couple. The husband contended that the French court was first seised of proceedings and so the TOLATA proceedings should be stayed. The appeal was allowed.

The appellant was seeking a Protected Costs Order to enable an application to proceed for formal recognition in the UK of a marriage undertaken with her same sex partner in British Columbia in 2003. The application was refused.

This was an appeal against the AIT’s decision to remove a failed asylum seeker on the grounds that the appellant’s article 8 rights were being infringed. The appeal was allowed.

This was an application by a mother for permission to appeal against an interim care order for M, her daughter, who had been seriously injured whilst in the care of the father. The appeal was dismissed but the care order was to be reviewed again in the County Court.

The claimant was appealing an order for costs arising from litigation with her son concerning a beneficial interest in a family home. The appeal was allowed.

An appeal by the biological mother against an order granting her lesbian partner’s application to be the primary carer for their 2 children.