E (A Child) [2013] EWHC 2400 (Fam) (30 July 2013)
The Court allowed a LA to withdraw an application for a care order in respect of a child where it had become clear over the course of evidence that the Threshold Criteria would not be reached and that...
View ArticleK (A Child:Wardship: Publicity) [2013] EWHC B11 (Fam) (25 July 2013)
The Court made orders allowing adoptive parents to discuss with the media their difficult experiences of adopting a child with reactive attachment disorder. Permission was granted but delayed until...
View ArticleRCW v A Local Authority [2013] EWHC 2129 (Fam) (16 July 2013)
The Court made final adoption orders in a case where previously an injunction had been obtained to prevent the local authority removing a child from a prospective adoptive placement after medical...
View ArticleA (A Child) [2013] UKSC 60
The Court considered a complex UK-Pakistan case concerning the habitual residence of a child born in Pakistan to a Mother held there under duress. The child’s three older siblings having been born in...
View ArticleA (A Child) [2013] EWCA Civ 1104 (06 September 2013)
The CA allowed a Father’s appeal against final orders providing for no direct contact and a s.91(14) order in a case characterised by systemic failure of the Family Justice system over the 11 years the...
View ArticleIA (A Child) (Fact finding; Welfare; Single hearing; Experts reports) [2013]...
he Court gave judgment following a fact finding at which a Father was found responsible for non-accidental injuries to a child KA who had died of unknown causes. The welfare hearing was in respect of...
View ArticleRe B-S (Children) [2013] EWCA Civ 1146 (17 September 2013)
A landmark case that childcare practitioner’s need to read in full. The CA criticised the inadequate analysis by local authorities, guardians and judges of alternatives to adoption and the importance...
View ArticleM (a Child) [2013] EWCA Civ 1131 (17 September 2013)
The CA upheld an appeal against an order for DNA testing of a child’s paternity in the context of a Hague Convention application. The CA held that this was premature while evidence on Latvian law was...
View ArticleM (Children) EWCA Civ 1147 (20 September 2013)
The CA remitted a case for reconsideration to allow a father to present detailed and specific proposals supported by evidence for supervised contact to the DJ for her to consider her decision for no...
View ArticleR (A Child) [2013] EWCA 1115 (06 September 2013)
The CA allowed a Father’s appeal and set aside an order granting a Mother permission to take a child to Kenya for a holiday. The safeguards envisaged by the Judge were not available in fact and their...
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