Judgments

Final hearing before DJ Hatvany featuring cross applications for enforcement and variation of a joint lives periodical payments order. Original financial order made in 2012.

This case concerns an application made under the inherent jurisdiction on 31 August 2023 by the applicant mother in relation to KA aged 2 years and 11 months at the time of the judgment.

This case concerns an application by DE and JE for the recognition at common law of their adoption in Nigeria of twin girls, TE and TT, now age 11 years. The Nigerian adoption order was made by the Family Court of Edo State on 5 December 2023.

This case concerns an application under the 1980 Hague Convention brought by the father of five-year-old twins by which he seeks their return to Ukraine.

This judgment was published by Mr Justice MacDonald in the High Court. The case concerns the domestic adoption of a child born as a result of a commercial surrogacy undertaken which took place in the USA.

This judgment was handed down by Recorder Laura Moys sitting in the Family Court. 

A local authority, which had sought findings of sexual abuse, successfully appealed the finding of a circuit judge that a six-year-old girl had contracted gonorrhoea via fomite transmission.

This judgment was published by Ms Justice Harris in the High Court. The child who is the subject of these proceedings is C aged 8 years old.

This judgment was published by Mr David Rees KC in the High Court. The court was concerned with an application under the 1980 Hague Convention for the summary return of a child (D) aged 3 to Australia.

This judgment was published by Mr Justice Poole in the High Court. This hearing and judgment focus on the Respondent Father’s application for summary return of the two children AA aged 11 years old and BB aged 7 years 11 months.

This was a judgment by His Honour Judge Richard Case sitting in the Family Court at Slough. The court was concerned with the mother’s application to restrict disclosure of certain information to the father in the context of care proceedings.

This judgment was delivered by Mr Justice Poole sitting in the High Court. The court was concerned with a final welfare hearing in proceedings relating to a 7 year old boy. His mother (“FG”) had dual nationality in Britain and country ‘Z’. The father (“DE”) was a national of a European country, ‘Y’.

This judgment was published by The Honourable Mr Justice Garrido in the High Court on 28 February 2025. The court was concerned with a return order of two children aged 6 and 9 who arrived to England in July 2024 on a small boat from France. It was ultimately decided that it is in the best interests of the children to return them to their parents.

HHJ Robertson refused the mother’s application for permission to appeal an arbitral award made in a dispute about holiday arrangements for the parties’ 7-year-old son.

This judgment was published by Mr Justice Garrido in the High Court. This case concerns an application for a return order of two young children aged 6 and 9 who travelled to England from France on a small boat.

This judgment was published by Mrs Justice Judd in the High Court. This case concerns an application for a summary return order to China in relation to a girl (I) who is aged almost three. The applicant is the mother, and the respondent the father.