This was a second appeal in a case where the appellant husband had issued divorce proceedings in France and the respondent wife responded by issuing proceedings under the Trusts of Land and Appointment of Trustees Act 1996 concerning a portfolio of properties owned by the couple. The husband contended that the French court was first seised of proceedings and so the TOLATA proceedings should be stayed. The appeal was allowed.
The appellant was seeking a Protected Costs Order to enable an application to proceed for formal recognition in the UK of a marriage undertaken with her same sex partner in British Columbia in 2003. The application was refused.
This was an appeal against the AIT’s decision to remove a failed asylum seeker on the grounds that the appellant’s article 8 rights were being infringed. The appeal was allowed.
This was an application by a mother for permission to appeal against an interim care order for M, her daughter, who had been seriously injured whilst in the care of the father. The appeal was dismissed but the care order was to be reviewed again in the County Court.
The claimant was appealing an order for costs arising from litigation with her son concerning a beneficial interest in a family home. The appeal was allowed.
An appeal by the biological mother against an order granting her lesbian partner’s application to be the primary carer for their 2 children.
An appeal by a father against the rejection of a request that a CAFCASS officer have the opportunity to see his child to discuss the possibility of future direct contact with him.
An appeal against the judge’s direction that the determination of the validity of a marriage dissolved by talak in Pakistan should be heard by a court in Pakistan.
