Case Summaries

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A probate claim before Master Teverson.

This was a successful appeal against a decision of HHJ Lea to refuse a mother’s application for direct contact to her children (who were being cared for by the Local Authority) as the lockdown restrictions eased. Appeal allowed.

This is an appeal from a return order made under the 1980 Hague Child Abduction Convention ("the 1980 Convention").

This is a second-tier appeal to the Court of Appeal regarding a claim for damages for professional negligence which may be time barred under s2 Limitation Act 1980

Application by a mother to prevent her husband and others from removing her child from the country or to perform FGM on the child.

Transfer of residence of a 9 year old to father’s care after mother failed to adequately disengage from the cult of Universal Medicine. There is to be no direct or indirect contact between mother and child over the Summer, and the reintroduction of contact between mother and child is to be decided by the father in consultation with the ISW.

This case concerned an application for the return of K, aged 8, to Russia. The child’s mother, NT, applied for K’s return either under the Hague Convention 1980 or, in the alternative, under the inherent jurisdiction of the High Court.

Appeal by father (F) against order made under inherent jurisdiction that a child (A) aged 13 and a British National, who has been living in Algeria for just over 12 years, should be brought to England so that “an assessment can be made in a place of safety as to her best interests and living arrangements”.

Judgment of Judd J authorising the deprivation of liberty of a 13-year-old child where no regulated secure accommodation was available and the only viable holding placement, acknowledged to be ‘sub-optimal’, was a council property rented and staffed by the local authority.

This is the second judgment of Keehan J in relation to the funding of a lay advocate in public law proceedings.

Legal Professional Privilege: when has a cherry been relevantly placed before the court?

Appeal by a children's guardian against the decision by HH Judge Watson at a case management hearing to grant the local authority permission to withdraw the proceedings.