Judgments

This was an application to discharge or set aside an order against publicity arising from a contact case in 1996. The order was discharged.

This is a judgment in a long running ancillary relief case concerning enforcement of lump sum and periodical payment orders where the applicant was alleging that the respondent was wilfully refusing to pay.

This is a House of Lords judgment concerning an appeal by parents against an order freeing one of their children for adoption. The appeal was dismissed though Baroness Hale gave a dissenting judgment.

This is an application for permission to appeal a decree nisi principally on the grounds that there had been no marriage in the first place. Application refused.

This is an application to appeal, with an appeal to follow, by a mother against orders allowing the placement of her son for adoption. Appeal dismissed.

This was an appeal by a mother against an order refusing her application to relocate to Brazil with her daughter and granting of a shared residence order. Appeal allowed.

This was an appeal against an order in connection with a claim under the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975. The appeal was allowed though Lloyd LJ dissented.

This was an application for judicial review of proceedings in the Crown Court where a child witness in a sexual abuse case was brought before the Court unrepresented and without notice, to decide whether her medical records should be disclosed. The application succeeded.

This is an application for judicial review by M who claims that the Council had not treated her as a ‘former relevant child’ under s23c of the Children Act 1989 and the Leaving Care Regulations deprived her of accommodation under that Act. The application failed.

This judgment centred on libel proceedings initiated by a father against a report produced by an expert witness. The application was disposed of.

This judgment declared that a former matrimonial home was an anti-nuptial settlement capable of variation pursuant to S 24(1)(c) of the MCA 1973.

This was an application for permission to appeal, with appeal to follow, an order refusing the father’s application that his daughter should be joined as a party to contact proceedings and represented by NYAS. Permission and appeal granted.

This is a judgment concerning the correct approach to freezing orders in the family courts.

The CPS was appealing against an order made in ancillary relief proceedings that awarded the wife of a drug dealer an amount equal to her beneficial interest in the matrimonial home. The appeal was allowed.

This was an appeal by the father against the judge’s refusal to order the summary return of his children to Dominica. Appeal allowed and a further hearing ordered.