Cases Archive

Application for a Parental Order where the applicants had separated, where the application was made outside the statutory 6-month timescale and where there was an issue as to the proportionality of the payments made to the surrogate. Application granted

Court of Appeal confirms it is possible to make a Pension Sharing Order in relation to a pension based outside the jurisdiction, and that injunctions made under s.37 Senior Courts Act 1981 does not create freestanding jurisdiction to make substantive orders – it is an ancillary power only

Issue in care proceedings relating to procedural basis for applying out of time for a Supervision Order. The case has change the law in this area. Mostyn J accepted Henry Lamb’s submission that the Court of Appeal has wrongly interpreted the law over the last 21 years

An international child law case where the local authority applied for, and was granted, a reporting restriction order

In an application for maintenance, Parker J was required to determine whether the courts in Scotland or in England and Wales had jurisdiction. In concluding that the husband’s writ did not constitute an application for maintenance in accordance with the European Maintenance Regulation, it was held that the English court had jurisdiction and an order for interim maintenance was made

Application for a Care Order in relation to a 16-year-old child in a complex case with an international dimension

Sir Peter Singer orders a 13 year old child’s return to Dublin, despite his strongly held objections to such return, in proceedings brought by the father under the Hague Child Abduction Convention 1980

Merger of judgment and variation of a charging order