Case Summaries

Judgment of Mostyn J concerning a wife’s application seeking periodical payments for joint lives and the adjournment of her capital claims.

Court of Appeal financial remedies decision addressing issues of the approach the court should take to the valuation of shares in a private company and how to determine non-marital wealth.

Successful appeal of the dismissal of a father’s application under the Hague Child Abduction Convention 1980

Financial remedy appeal concerning the validity of a prorogation clause in a prenuptial agreement and the effect, if any, on the Court’s ability to take into account needs, compensation and sharing where there is a valid prenuptial agreement with no vitiating factors.

Application under the 1980 Hague Convention for the summary return of a child to the jurisdiction of Portugal

Successful appeal to the Court of Appeal against a care and placement order.

Unsuccessful appeal against a secure accommodation order, in which the Court of Appeal sets out the current law on secure accommodation orders.

Application for a declaration to remedy an error arising from the insertion of the wrong date on a form required by statute for legal parentage.

Judgment of Keehan J granting two applications for adoption in respect of twins who had been placed separately and criticising the ‘utterly appalling’ failings of the local authority which had led to their separation.

Judgment of Keehan J revoking placement orders made in respect of two children who had suffered over ten years of ‘woeful’ care-planning by the local authority and ‘stark’ and ‘grave’ failures by the independent reviewing officers (“IROs”) to exercise their statutory function to safeguard the children’s welfare and future care.

Judgment of Cohen J determining that it was not appropriate for the local authority to notify the father about the birth of the child in circumstances where a very young mother wished for the child to be adopted.

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Mr Justice MacDonald considered an application for financial remedies made by HRH Tessy Princess of Luxembourg in circumstances where the respondent husband (HRH Louis Prince of Luxembourg) asserted that the entirety of the beneficial interest in the family home was owned by a third party.

Judgment of Roberts J in long running litigation addressing the court’s ability to vary a financial remedies order made by a judge at the conclusion of those proceedings.

Refusal by Moor J of a father’s application for permission to appeal, made in long-running private law proceedings, against an order under s.91(14), dismissal of an application for recusal, and refusal to reinstate direct contact with the child.

Judgment of Keehan J making adoption orders in respect of two children and also ordering an injunction under the inherent jurisdiction.