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The list below is of key judgments published this year. Click the folders on the left hand side to browse the archive of judgments now available on the site since we started publishing in 2005.

• T (A child), Re [2020] EWHC 220 (Fam)
  Judgments (12/02/2020)
  Application by a Local Authority pursuant to the inherent jurisdiction for a declaration that it is in the interests of a looked after child [T] to receive a schedule of vaccinations.
• Dorset Council v M (Failure to prove non-accidental injury) [2019] EWFC B63
  Judgments (07/02/2020)
  Fact-finding hearing regarding an injury to a new born baby to establish a pool of perpetrators and whether the injury was intentional, caused by recklessness or by delivery method.
• AB (Contested Adoption) [2019] EWFC B68
  Judgments (07/02/2020)
  HHJ Simmonds delivers an ex tempore judgment at the conclusion of the final hearing in an adoption application in respect of two children.
• Re C (Lay Advocates) [2019] EWHC 3738 (Fam)
  Judgments (05/02/2020)
  HMCTS ordered to fund the reasonable costs of lay advocates for parents in care proceedings. The service was akin to that provided by an interpreter or intermediary.
• A, B And C (Adoption: Notification of Fathers And Relatives) [2020] EWCA Civ 41
  Judgments (30/01/2020)
  Appeals concerning 3 babies where the mothers had concealed the pregnancies from the fathers and relatives. With 2 children being placed for adoption and that being an option for the third, should the local authorities notify the fathers before the plans are affected?
• W (A Child) [2020] EWCA Civ 16
  Judgments (29/01/2020)
  Parents successfully appealed the refusal of permission to oppose the making of an adoption order
• MB v EB [2019] EWHC 3676 (Fam)
  Judgments (29/01/2020)
  Judgment of Mr Justice Cohen on the “needs claim” of the applicant husband, who described himself as a “struggling artist”, against his former wife who had resources of £50 million. The judgment provides a firm reminder of costs rules, amplified by the recent amendments to FPR 2010 Practice Direction 28A, where a party fails to litigate sensibly and to engage in sensible negotiations.
• HR v DS [2019] EWHC 2425 (Fam)
  Judgments (29/01/2020)
  In this case Mr Justice Cohen granted, for what appeared to be the first time, a Hadkinson order to cover proceedings which were not identical, albeit related. The effect of the order was to strike out an appeal in Family Law Act proceedings unless the respondent made good the admitted default in Financial Remedy proceedings.
• XW v XH [2019] EWCA Civ 2262
  Judgments (29/01/2020)
  Complex big money financial remedies appeal raising issues of non-matrimonial property. Finding at first instance of a ‘special contribution’ overturned by the Court of Appeal. W’s share increased from £152 million to £182 million.
• Re H v F [2020] EWHC 86 (Fam)
  Judgments (24/01/2020)
  
• Z County Council v M, F and C [2019]
  Judgments (24/01/2020)
  
• EF, GH, IJ (care proceedings) [2019] EWFC 75
  Judgments (16/01/2020)
  Fact finding hearing in which the conduct of the police during the ABE interviewing process rendered the evidence unreliable
• CB v KB [2019] EWFC 78
  Judgments (12/01/2020)
  Judgment of Mr Justice Mostyn in financial remedy proceedings, dealing with the valuation of music-related income streams, and providing guidance on the treatment of future earnings, amortisation, and the calculation of child support in “top-up” cases.
• Wakefield Metropolitan District Council v R & Ors [2019] EWHC 3581 (Fam)
  Judgments (12/01/2020)
  Judgment following a finding of fact hearing concerning a young child with significant head injuries.
• Oxfordshire County Council v AD & Ors [2019] EWFC B66
  Judgments (12/01/2020)
  Application by consent to vary FGM protection orders to allow greater freedom to travel
• Z, Re [2019] EWCOP 55
  Judgments (12/01/2020)
  Principles of open justice and their application to cases conducted in private
• Re Y (A Child) [2019] EWCA Civ 2209
  Judgments (10/01/2020)
  The Court of Appeal dismissed an appeal against an order that Wakefield should be the designated authority in respect of care proceedings regarding a child who was found to have no ordinary residence. Lady Justice King, giving the judgment of the court, reminded local authorities that designation disputes consume time and scarce financial resources, which are better spent on the children at the centre of such arguments.
• TT v CDS [2019] EWHC 3572 (Fam)
  Judgments (09/01/2020)
  
• Re QD (Jurisdiction: Habitual Residence) [2019] EWCOP 56
  Judgments (09/01/2020)
  
• Re C1 and C2 (Child Arrangements) [2019] EWHC B15 (Fam)
  Judgments (09/01/2020)
  
• Re C3 and C4 (Child Arrangements) [2019] EWHC B14 (Fam)
  Judgments (09/01/2020)