Results: 21

• QQ v XX

  17 Nov 2022 [2022] EWHC 2910 (Fam); [2023] Fam 241; [2023] 3 WLR 475; [2023] WLR(D) 129, Fam D (Morgan J)

  ADOPTION — Arrangements for adoption — Foreign parties
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  ADOPTION — Arrangements for adoption — Foreign parties — Children’s guardian appointed for foreign national child in adoption proceedings — Whether appointment giving rise to duty to inform foreign consulate — Children Act 1989 (c 41), s 5 — FPR r 16.3(1) — Vienna Convention on Consular Relations (1973) (Cmnd 5219), art 37(b)

  1 Case considered

  1 Statute considered

  1 Statutory Instrument considered

  1 International Agreement considered
• In re C (Children)

  09 Mar 2023 [2023] EWHC 516 (Fam); [2023] Fam 230; [2023] 3 WLR 1; [2023] WLR(D) 132, Fam D (Judge Moradifar sitting as a High Court judge)

  Subsequent considerations : 1 negative; most recently considered: 2025. Subsequent citations: 3.
  CHILDREN — Parental responsibility — Father
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  CHILDREN — Parental responsibility — Father — Man acquiring parental responsibility for child by virtue of registration as child’s father — Man subsequently found not to be child’s biological father — Mother applying for declaration of non-parentage in respect of man — Whether such declaration having effect of ending man’s parental responsibility — Whether necessary to conduct welfare analysis before making order ending parental responsibility — Births and Deaths Registration Act 1953 (1 & 2 Eliz 2, c 20), s 10 — Family Law Act 1986 (c 55), s 55A — Children Act 1989 (c 41), s 4

  3 Case(s) considered

  3 Statutes considered
• Lincolnshire County Council v TGA

  17 Aug 2022 [2022] EWHC 2323 (Fam); [2023] Fam 59; [2022] 3 WLR 1297; [2023] 1 FLR 978; [2022] WLR(D) 379, Fam D (Lieven J)

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive. Subsequent citations: 7.
  CHILDREN — Parental responsibility — Deprivation of liberty
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  CHILDREN — Parental responsibility — Deprivation of liberty — 14-year-old child accommodated by local authority at children’s centre — Whether placement amounting to deprivation of liberty — Whether child’s testamentary guardians able to consent to placement if otherwise amounting to deprivation of liberty — Children Act 1989 (c 41), s 20 — Human Rights Act 1998 (c 42), Sch 1, Pt I, art 5

  7 Case(s) considered

  2 Statutes considered

• In re W-A (Children) (A Local Authority v M)

  21 Jun 2022 [2022] EWHC 2127 (Fam), Fam D (Lieven J)

  05 Aug 2022 [2022] EWCA Civ 1118; [2023] Fam 139; [2022] 3 WLR 1235; [2023] 3 All ER 483; [2023] 1 FLR 369; [2022] WLR(D) 348, CA (Bean, Peter Jackson, Dingemans LJJ)

  Subsequent citations: 11.
  EVIDENCE — Admissibility — Conviction

  CHILDREN — Family proceedings — Evidence
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  EVIDENCE — Admissibility — Conviction

  CHILDREN — Family proceedings — Evidence — Care proceedings in respect of children living with man previously convicted in Spain of sexual offences against children — Whether foreign conviction admissible in care proceedings — Whether having presumptive weight if admitted

  4 Case(s) considered

• P v Q

  02 Feb 2023 [2023] EWHC 195 (Fam); [2023] Fam 165; [2023] 2 WLR 769; [2023] 3 All ER 77; [2023] 2 FLR 508; [2023] WLR(D) 64, Fam D (Gwynneth Knowles J)

  MARRIAGE — Forced marriage — Protection order
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  MARRIAGE — Forced marriage — Protection order — American wife resident in United States applying for forced marriage protection order against British husband resident in United Kingdom — Whether court having jurisdiction to make forced marriage protection order where applicant neither physically present in jurisdiction nor British national — Family Law Act 1996 (c 27), s 63A — Human Rights Act 1998 (c 42), s 3, Sch 1, Pt I, arts 3, 8

  4 Case(s) considered

  2 Statutes considered
• Abbasi v Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (Thomas v King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Haastrup v King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust)

  23 Jun 2021 [2021] EWHC 1699 (Fam); [2022] Fam 180; [2022] 2 WLR 465; [2022] 1 FLR 348; [2021] WLR(D) 373, Fam D (Sir Andrew McFarlane P)

  31 Mar 2023 [2023] EWCA Civ 331; [2023] Fam 287; [2023] 3 WLR 575; [2023] 4 All ER 116; [2023] 2 FLR 1267; [2023] WLR(D) 166, CA (Lord Burnett of Maldon CJ, King, Carr LJJ)

  27 Jul 2023 Permission to appeal to Supreme Court given, , SC(E)

  16 Apr 2025 [2025] UKSC 15; [2025] 2 WLR 815; [2025] 3 All ER 781; [2025] 2 FLR 322; [2025] WLR(D) 220, SC(E) (Lord Reed PSC, Lord Hodge DPSC, Lord Briggs, Lord Sales, Lord Stephens JJSC)

  Subsequent considerations : 2 positive; 4 neutral; most recently considered: 2025. Subsequent citations: 44.
  CHILDREN — Court’s inherent jurisdiction — Restriction on publication

  CHILDREN — Inherent jurisdiction — Parens patriae

  CHILDREN — Injunction — Jurisdiction
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  CHILDREN — Court’s inherent jurisdiction — Restriction on publication — Open-ended reporting restriction orders made in end of life cases prohibiting publication of names of NHS staff involved in treatment of children — Parents applying to revoke or be released from orders after death of children — Whether High Court having jurisdiction to review orders — Proper approach to such review — Human Rights Act 1998 (c 42), s 6, Sch 1, Pt I, arts 8, 10

  CHILDREN — Inherent jurisdiction — Parens patriae — Indefinite reporting restriction orders made in end of life cases prohibiting publication of names of hospital staff involved in treatment of children — Whether High Court having jurisdiction to review continuation of orders — Proper approach to such review — Human Rights Act 1998 (c 42), Sch 1, Pt I, arts 8, 10(1)

  CHILDREN — Injunction — Jurisdiction — NHS trust bringing proceedings under inherent jurisdiction of High Court for declaration that withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment in best interests of child — Whether High Court having jurisdiction to grant injunction prohibiting naming of clinicians involved in child’s care — Whether High Court having jurisdiction to continue such injunction after child’s death — Whether NHS trust having standing to seek continuation of injunction to protect clinicians — Human Rights Act 1998 (c 42), s 6(1), Sch 1, Pt I, arts 8, 10

  13 Case(s) considered

  1 Statute considered
• Derbyshire County Council v Mother

  19 Dec 2022 [2022] EWHC 3405 (Fam); [2023] Fam 183; [2023] 2 WLR 1270; [2023] WLR(D) 46, Fam D (Lieven J)

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive; most recently considered: 2023. Subsequent citations: 3.
  CHILDREN — Care proceedings — Jurisdiction
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  CHILDREN — Care proceedings — Jurisdiction — Care proceedings in respect of children present in England — Whether English courts having jurisdiction — Whether children habitually resident in England — Whether habitual residence to be determined as at date court seised or date of hearing — Convention on Jurisdiction, Applicable Law, Recognition, Enforcement and Co-operation in Respect of Parental Responsibility and Measures for the Protection of Children (2012) (Cm 8477), art 5

  2 Case(s) considered

  1 International Agreement considered

• Villiers v Villiers

  11 Mar 2021 [2021] EWFC 23; [2022] 1 FLR 513, Fam Ct (Mostyn J)

  10 Jun 2022 [2022] EWCA Civ 772; [2023] Fam 1; [2022] 3 WLR 1038; [2023] 2 All ER 897; [2023] 1 FLR 1316; [2022] WLR(D) 255, CA (Moylan, Coulson, Arnold LJJ)

  24 Apr 2023 (appn dis) [2023] 1 WLR 1926, SC(E) ( Lord Lloyd-Jones, Lord Kitchin, Lord Stephens JJSC)

  Subsequent citations: 7.
  MARRIAGE — Divorce — Financial provision

  MARRIAGE — Financial provision — Order
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  MARRIAGE — Divorce — Financial provision — Wife resident in England applying for maintenance after Scottish divorce — Husband resident in Scotland applying to set aside existing interim orders — Whether jurisdiction to continue maintenance claim after divorce ─ Whether failure to provide reasonable maintenance ─ Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 (c 18), ss 27, 28(2)

  MARRIAGE — Financial provision — Order — Wife applying for financial provision order on ground husband failing to provide reasonable maintenance — Whether failure to provide reasonable maintenance to be determined as at date of application or date of hearing — Whether refusal of application on new ground procedurally unfair — Whether husband’s common law duty to maintain wife relevant to court’s exercise of discretion to make order — Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 (c 18), s 27

  4 Case(s) considered

  1 Statute considered

• Hussain v Parveen

  03 Sep 2021 [2021] EWFC 73; [2022] 1 FLR 823, Fam Ct (Arbuthnot J)

  04 Nov 2022 [2022] EWCA Civ 1434; [2023] Fam 197; [2023] 2 WLR 787; [2023] 2 All ER 1035; [2023] 1 FLR 831; [2022] WLR(D) 431; The Times, 28 December 2022, CA (Moylan, Asplin, Stuart-Smith LJJ)

  MARRIAGE — Divorce — Foreign decree, recognition of

  MARRIAGE — Nullity — Capacity to marry
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  MARRIAGE — Divorce — Foreign decree, recognition of — Wife in Pakistan divorced by talaq decree pronounced in England — Wife remarrying in Pakistan — Whether divorce recognised in English law — Whether second marriage nullity — Family Law Act 1986 (c 55), s 46

  MARRIAGE — Nullity — Capacity to marry — Transnational divorce effective under law of Pakistan but not recognised in England and Wales — Wife subsequently marrying while domiciled in Pakistan — Husband later bringing nullity petition on ground wife still married to previous husband — Whether non-recognition of divorce under English law determinative of wife’s capacity to marry again — Whether capacity to marry determined by reference to law of domicile — Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 (c 18), ss 11, 14 — Family Law Act 1986 (c 55), s 45

  5 Case(s) considered

  2 Statutes considered

• Barnet London Borough Council v AG (A Child)

  13 May 2021 [2021] EWHC 1253 (Fam); [2021] Fam 404; [2021] 3 WLR 875; [2022] 2 All ER 168; [2022] 1 FLR 877; [2021] WLR(D) 280, DC (Sir Andrew McFarlane P, Sir Duncan Ouseley sitting as a High Court judge)

  18 Nov 2022 [2022] EWCA Civ 1505; [2023] Fam 261; [2023] 3 WLR 249; [2023] 2 All ER 1128; [2023] 1 FLR 895, CA (Sir Geoffrey Vos MR, Moylan, Baker LJJ)

  Subsequent citations: 3.
  CHILDREN — Care proceedings — Diplomatic immunity
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  CHILDREN — Care proceedings — Diplomatic immunity — Local authority issuing care proceedings in respect of children of foreign diplomat — Diplomatic immunity preventing continuation of proceedings — Whether provisions enshrining diplomatic immunity incompatible with human rights — Diplomatic Privileges Act 1964 (c 81), s 2(1), Sch 1, arts 29, 30(1), 31(1), 37(1)(2) — Human Rights Act 1998 (c 42), s 4(2), Sch 1, Pt I, arts 3, 6 — United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989) (Cm 1976)

  CHILDREN — Care proceedings — Diplomatic immunity — Local authority issuing care proceedings in respect of child of foreign diplomat — Diplomatic immunity preventing continuation of proceedings — Whether statutory provisions enshrining diplomatic immunity to be declared incompatible with human rights — Diplomatic Privileges Act 1964 (c 81), s 2(1), Sch 1, arts 29, 30(1), 31(1), 37(1)(2) — Human Rights Act 1998 (c 42), s 4, Sch 1, Pt I, art 3

  10 Case(s) considered

  2 Statutes considered

  1 International Agreement considered