Case Summaries

Applications by Husband to vary terms of financial remedy order relating to the use of monies from a damages award for his child, who has lifelong care needs. Applications granted.

Application for release of papers and transcripts of Hearings from past s25 and DOL proceedings

Application by Grandparents for contact with 6 year-old grandchild.

Before Nicholas Allen KC. A “paradigm case for the court to exercise its new powers” under FPR r3.4(1), in which an order was made staying the wife’s financial remedies application for the parties to engage in NCDR.

In this case, the father applied under the 1980 Hague Convention for the return of his daughter to Ukraine.

HHJ Vincent declined to conclude a ‘finely balanced’ case where there had only been one brief instance of contact between the applicant mother and the children since 2019.

Appeal by Mother from decision, largely based on hair strand testing, to remove children in interim care from the care of their maternal grandmother. Appeal allowed.

In March, Ms Justice Henke heard an appeal against an Order made confirming that the two parties, who married in an Islamic ceremony in 1999 were not legally married.

This judgment of Lieven J’s concerns the court’s power to revoke adoption orders.

These proceedings related to ‘J’, who is 16 and a half. J was assigned to the female sex at birth but regarded himself as male for some time.