A father’s appeal against an order dismissing his application for leave to oppose the making of adoption orders under section 47(5) of the Adoption and Children Act 2002. The maternal grandfather’s proposal to now care for the children, having been aware of the proceedings, did not constitute a sufficient change in circumstances. Appeal dismissed.
This was an appeal against findings made within private law proceedings
Application for a Declaration of Parentage following administrative errors by the fertility clinic
This is the second judgment from the Court of Appeal in a long running private law Children Act dispute.
Application to determine the wording of a letter of instruction to an expert in financial remedy proceedings. Mr Justice Moor commends the use of arbitration to decide such issues.
Judgment of Sir James Munby (Sitting as a Judge of the High Court) in a case concerning an application by the Queen’s Proctor to set aside a decree nisi of divorce granted in the Willesden County Court in 2013.
Judgment of Keehan J giving reasons for granting a local authority permission to withdraw care proceedings.
Judgment of Cohen J concerning jurisdiction and locus for financial remedy proceedings
Appeal against an order dismissing the mother’s application for a variation of an order that the child should live with the father.
The Court of Appeal discharges a lump sum order made against a third party trust in the context of financial remedy proceedings.
Appeal considering whether when it is alleged that a judgment was obtained by fraud, that judgment may only be set aside where the applicant can demonstrate that the alleged fraud could not have been uncovered with reasonable diligence in advance of the obtaining of the judgment.
Application before Mrs Justice Knowles for directions to implement a return order in child abduction proceedings, the outcome turning on construction of the order as amended by the Court of Appeal.
Judgment of Keehan J (1) dismissing allegations of honour-based violence, (2) finding that the mother had wrongly and maliciously sought to exclude the father from the child’s life, and (3) making a non-party costs order against an expert reporter who had serially failed to comply with court directions.
Appeal heard by the President of the Family Division, Lady Justice King and Lord Justice Coulson which concerns the issue of post-adoption contact.
