Judgments

Final hearing in W’s application for financial remedies following a long marriage involving criminal convictions, extensive non-disclosure, relief from sanctions and allegations of dissipation.

The court was, following a set-aside and rehearing, satisfied on the evidence that the grave risk of harm defence under Article 13(b) was made out and absent protective measures.  Child not to be summarily returned.

Permission to appeal hearing.  The court has a very wide discretion and ambit to do the best it could when looking at a range of potential tax liabilities and a reverse contingent lump sum order was appropriate with the inability to come up with a more specified formulaic approach.

This case concerns a final hearing of a parties’ cross applications for the return of their children.

This judgment by District Judge Napier is a strong illustration of the court’s considerations when making a Special Guardianship Order in private law disputes and its approach to internal relocation.

HHJ Cope. Extended civil restraint order made against F following 6 applications and 2 appeals which were all found to be totally without merit.

This was a post‑judgment costs decision following financial remedy proceedings in which serious findings had been made against the respondent wife.

This judgment concerns applications for costs and wasted costs following the conclusion of private law children proceedings. 

HHJ Patel deemed that there were exceptional reasons justifying a care order at home. Risks related to the parent’s mental health and the father’s neurodivergence continued to be high and had to be monitored and supported before the local authority stepped away.

Application by father for return of children to Zimbabwe under the Child Abduction and Custody Act 1985 (incorporating the 1980 Hague Convention).

Whether there had been a ‘significant change of circumstances’ to warrant the discharge of an undertaking and/or to vary an income based PP order.

‘Compliance with court orders is expected by any court and is expected by this court.’  The seriousness of a breach or breaches will warrant a custodial sentence with a discretion to suspend based on conditions.

Case concerning the terms of Transparency Order in ongoing care proceedings involving a young child alleged to have been subjected to fabricated or induced illness (FII).

Husband’s financial remedies application, the primary issue being the wife’s conduct, including fraud and dishonesty, coercive and controlling behaviour, and physical, emotional, verbal, and financial abuse.

This case concerns a mother’s application for permission to appeal (out of time) on both procedural and substantive grounds the decision by District Judge Rollason to make care and placement orders (with plans for adoption) on submissions only without hearing evidence from the mother or experts in the case. The appeal was heard by His Honour Judge Willans.

Care proceedings, issued following death of child’s sibling. Real possibility found that M or F caused fatal injuries to sibling. Child to remain with foster carers, under SGO