Cases Archive

Coleridge J considered whether parents were complicit in bringing a young baby to the UK from Nigeria and holding him out as their own. Robin Powell successfully represented the parents, the Court finding that they were in fact duped and entirely innocent

Application for an Hemain injunction against Respondent Husband in respect of proceedings brought by him in the USA. An order was obtained providing for an arbitration clause in the pre-marital agreement to be upheld.

Fact-finding hearing in care proceedings to establish what part, if any, the parents played in the child’s dramatic deterioration and other significant injuries sustained in the hours and days before hospital admission.

Consideration of the jurisdiction of the Court under section 281(5) of the Insolvency Act 1986 (“section 281(5)”) to release a bankrupt from any bankruptcy debt arising under any order made in family proceedings (as defined in section 281(8))

Fact-finding hearing – Appeal – No explanation for injuries to child – Judge concluded parents possible perpetrators – Whether the local authority had discharged the burden of proof

Police joined as party in child abduction case where client was an undercover police officer.

Appeal by the father against findings of fact of a sexual nature made in a three-week trial. Appeal dismissed.

Disclosure — Serious sexual abuse allegations against the father — Contact with child suspended — Accuser suffered poor mental and physical health — Whether the balance fell in favour of disclosure