Cases Archive

Care proceedings – Child separately represented – Whether child should give oral evidence – Inferences to be drawn from mother’s failure to give oral evidence

Disclosure — Criminal proceedings — Criminal practice — Risk of compromising criminal process

Adoption – Unmarried father – Mother’s opposition to informing father of child’s existence – Existence of ‘family life’ under European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms 1950, Art 8

Divorce – Wife applying for ancillary relief – Registered charge on matrimonial home by intervenor – Whether charge be set aside – Whether husband’s petition in bankruptcy be set aside – Legal Services charge

Application for permission to appeal against an Order made at the outset of a financial remedy application standing over an application for annulment of a bankruptcy order and pending the bankruptcy proceedings, pending the outcome of the financial remedy hearing. Application dismissed.

Appeal against an order of Bennett J made in the Family Division on 26th April 2002 when, on their father’s application by way of originating summons issued on 5th October 2001, he ordered the return forthwith to India of two boys. Appeal dismissed.

“Starred Care Plan” case which concerned the degree to which a court could retain control over a case before handing it over to the local authority and the degree to which a court could insert “inalienable” conditions into a care plan.

Financial provision – Consent order – Clean break – Application for leave to appeal out of time – Consent order made based on valuation of parties’ assets – Whether subsequent change in valuation of husband’s assets justifying appeal out of time