Case Summaries

This was a pre-emptive application by the husband to strike out the wife’s claim for financial remedies pursuant to public policy principles on the basis of the wife’s alleged bigamy following a 20-year marriage, characterised by abuse and for which there were two children now living with the wife.

Pension sharing application kept open to aid possible enforcement of orders for transfer of property & contents in good order, payment of service charge, and in lieu of a costs order to be determined in modest assets case 

Unsuccessful “Daniels v Walker” application by W to adduce additional expert evidence

On an application by a father for mandatory summary return to Canada, under the 1980 Hague convention

This was the Mother’s application for committal of the Father for contempt of court for failing to comply with various orders to bring their son, E, back to the UK from the UAE. The Mother also made an application to lift some of the aspects of the confidentiality of the private proceedings in order to publicise that the Father was failing to comply with orders of the High Court.

The application before the court was for a variation of a lump sum payment by the husband to the wife following a final order having been made by consent on 10th December 2018 and a strike out application made by wife.

Father’s appeal against decision that progression of contact would depend on his engagement in psychotherapy dismissed.

The court was concerned with two children: X (12) and Y (6), who had been wrongfully removed from Mauritius in October 2022 by their mother. 

This hearing on the 10th of November 2023 was the 7th hearing in 25 days concerning Indi Gregory, a girl born with an incurable mitochondrial condition who was placed on full life support on the 6th of September 2023. The removal of invasive medical ventilation for Indi – a process known as extubation – was authorised by Peel J on the 16th of October 2023.

A parent’s appeal against the dismissal of an application to revoke placement orders and for the instruction of an independent social worker. Appeal dismissed.

In October 2023 Cobb J found the Defendant, Mr Wong, in contempt of court.

A wife succeeded in getting a stay lifted on her English divorce and financial remedy proceedings, which had been initiated in 2021 and 2022. The Deputy High Court Judge refused to recognise a Malaysian court-ordered divorce, because the husband had misled the Malaysian court in 2017. The marriage was still valid in England, and the wife’s applications would be heard by the English court.

This was a fact-finding hearing heard by The Hon. Mrs Justice Judd in proceedings concerning RR, a 6-year-old boy.

Appeal involving role of Solicitor-Guardian in 1980 Convention proceedings and extent to which Gillick competent child’s views should be followed

Application for Contact by Father previously refused direct Contact, change for surname and Order pursuant to s 91(14)

Appeal from Order of Keehan J as to whether child’s body should be buried in Bangladesh as sought by Paternal Grandparent Special Guardians, rather than UK, as sought by Mother