Cases Archive

Application for reconsideration of order appointing two siblings as P’s deputies. Application refused and costs ordered against the Applicants.

Appeal by a mother against an order that her daughter be returned to Lithuania. Appeal dismissed.

Appeal against ICO; injunction under Human Rights Act 1998, to keep mother and child together, considered. Appeal dismissed.

David represented the prospective adopters in the sequel to the well known Supreme Court case, in which adoption was described as “the last resort” to be confined to cases where “nothing else will do”.

High Court declarations of parentage made in respect of father whose child was conceived using donated sperm, in circumstances where he had signed a consent form, which the fertility clinic had lost.

Whether a landlord’s intention for the purposes of section 30(1)(f) of the Landlord and Tenant 1954 Act had to be proved to exist at the date of service of the section 25(6) notice or the date of trial.

Appeal allowed in respect of dismissal of a wife’s application to enforce child maintenance payments despite a decision by a US Court on the same issue already having been made.

Final hearing of the Local Authority’s application for a Care Order with a plan that the child reside in long-term foster care.