Cases Archive

Application by a Local Authority for Care and Placement Orders.

Care proceedings involving applications for Care and Placement Orders.

Successful appeal considering (1) the interplay between public law and private law proceedings where the State seeks to intervene in the placement of a child; (2) a reconsideration of the balancing exercise where the mother is able to provide “good enough” care but the grandmother is able to provide better care; and (3) the balancing exercise for purposeful delay for further assessment of a parent.

Father’s successful appeal against findings made of sexual abuse of the child. Points of interest include the Guardian’s representatives’ role where the father is a litigant in person, and the unfair process followed by the Judge as well as the wrong balancing exercise being conducted.

Care proceedings featuring the parents’ abduction of the children. Cobb J summarises the law in relation to the making, and revocation, of Care and Placement Orders, explores the exceptions to the “26-week deadline” in care proceedings and sets out the procedural requirements at ex-parte hearings

Directions hearing listed by Keehan J because of failures of the Local Authority in complying with directions made previously. Costs order made against the Local Authority

Contact application, ongoing for four years, where the father’s public funding had been terminated. The father was a convicted sex offender. The President, Sir James Munby, adjourned the case, despite submissions made to dismiss the father’s application summarily based on the weaknesses in the father’s case, and invited the Ministry of Justice to intervene in the proceedings, on the basis that the position regarding the father’s legal aid prevented the Court from delivering a fair hearing on his application.