Case Summaries

Fact finding regarding multiple injuries sustained by an infant. Both parents found to have inflicted specific injuries, as well as falling within a pool of possible perpetrators.

In this case Cobb J heard an application for a declaration (pursuant to FLA 1986 s55(1)(a)) that a marriage conducted on 14.02.2009 between AP and JP is a valid marriage.

This judgment relates to five separate related applications before the Court, except that each asked the Court to make orders to give effect in England and Wales to representative powers originating in a foreign jurisdiction.

A Court of Appeal judgment by Moylan LJ setting aside a High Court decision made under the inherent jurisdiction, which had ordered the return to Russia of two children.

This judgment concerns a case management decision regarding a litigation friend.

Cobb J allows an application for intercountry adoption to proceed notwithstanding the applicant’s non-compliance with certain of the requirements of the pre-adoption provisions of ACA 2002 and AFER 2005.

Concerning divorce proceedings by the wife of a Russian oligarch.

The court was concerned with cross applications for a declaration. PQ applied for a declaration of parentage, RS applied for a declaration of non-parentage under s 55A Family Law Act 1986.

The Court of Appeal set aside a fact-finding judgment in care proceedings on the grounds that it was insufficiently reasoned; there were “too many actual or arguable deficiencies in the structure and content of the judgment for it to be upheld”. A re-hearing was ordered.

Two further hearings in long-running ancillary relief proceedings.

Cohen J struck out the husband’s claim for damages in respect of W’s deceit over the paternity of C.

Cobb J gives reasons for approving an end of life care plan of palliative care for a 20 year old man with severe aplastic anaemia, following an unsuccessful bone marrow transplant.

Mr Justice Cobb found that the Senior Courts Act 1981 determines the allocation of costs for an application under the inherent jurisdiction concerning a vulnerable adult.

This judgment concerns the welfare and living arrangements for 25 children.