Cases Archive

Abduction – Brussels II Revised – Non-return order – Judgment requiring return of child – Whether available if non-return based on Art 3 – Court first seised of parental responsibility application.

Abduction – Welfare – Immigration status – Degree of settlement – Prospects of children remaining in jurisdiction – Interface between wardship and immigration authorities.

Publicity — Care proceedings — Final orders not yet made — Public debate — Summary of facts — Whether comment on proceedings to date would breach child’s human rights

Adoption – Contact – Post-adoption contact with mother or with half-siblings – Whether to be ordered.

Care – Welfare – Parenting assessment – Whether failure of emotional care and failure to co-operate justified adoption – Whether post-adoption contact with family members to be ordered.

Whether post-adoption contact between the mother and/or the baby’s half-siblings should be ordered by the Court

Appeal against final order made in financial remedy proceedings after a relatively short and childless marriage. Principal issue of housing needs raised on appeal, with the wife arguing that the District Judge had provided inadequately for her needs. Appeal allowed and additional lump sum ordered

Appeal relating to the length of sentence imposed in respect of breaches of a non-molestation order to which a power of arrest was attached

Abduction – Grave risk of harm – Disturbed child unable to cope with tension between parents – Whether exceptional – Whether consent vitiated by mother’s private decision not to allow contact – Children’s objections.