Cases Archive

Appeal arising from Hague Convention proceedings in which the High Court Judge at first instance made an order for DNA paternity testing of the child. The Court of Appeal held such direction to be premature, and instead that the Court should have awaited the outcome of expert evidence in relation to Latvian law to establish whether the respondent father had a “right of custody” without the need for the father to be a biological parent

Issue about the jurisdiction of the court under Brussels II Revised to transfer proceedings from England to Scotland- whether, because Scotland has a different legal system to England, it came within Article 15 -where there were jurisdictional disputes between different parts of the UK.

Application by parents within a Placement Order application to adduce further medical evidence to challenge findings against them that they had caused non-accidental injury to their son.

Application for permission to appeal against a decision of the lower court setting aside a decree nisi made in the English court on the basis that the English court had no jurisdiction to entertain the divorce proceedings. Application refused

Adoption case. The prospective adopter was a single woman who had originally fostered the child, Grandmother applied for contact; prospective adopter opposed this and opposed contact order. Judge, unusually, made contact order.

Consideration in private law proceedings as to whether, imminently, steps should be taken which could lead to the giving, in some form or another, of oral evidence by that vulnerable individual

Bodey J considers the law on revocation of an adoption order.

Final care and placement orders made after short adjournment allowed to enable the mother to consider the findings of the court made against herself and the father of the children.