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If you must Hague, don’t be vague
The “too long, didn’t read” version – if you’re making an application in the High Court under the Child Abduction and Custody Act 1985, bring your chequebook. And if you’re doing that, and are listed...
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The role of the Court in assessing alternative medical treatment
A discussion of An NHS Trust v SR 2012 This case made a lot of the national press over the last month, and I wanted to wait for the judgment before discussing it. It involves a child who is...
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“If you ever go across the sea to Ireland”
A discussion of two cases dealing with parents who fled to Ireland to avoid pending care proceedings. We are having a curious burst of the Higher Courts dealing with similar issues coincidentally in...
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Rubric’s revenge
I wrote yesterday about the murkiness and lack of clarity of what a parent can or can’t say post proceedings, particularly in a case where they were successful and the Court found that the LA had...
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Deprivation of liberty and force-feeding
The Court of Protection grappled with a difficult issue in A NHS Trust v Dr A 2013 http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/COP/2013/2442.html Apologies in advance – this is a long article, it is complex...
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Inherently nothing, nothing inherently
A (hopefully short) discussion about the inherent jurisdiction, particularly as it applies to adults. I wrote about the Court of Protection popping on the High Court hat to make use of the inherent...
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Mostyn-tacious – a judgment that makes your temples throb
The case of Re D (A child) 2014 presented Mostyn J with a very very serious issue to try. http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Fam/2014/121.html The child, D, was profoundly unwell, with a great deal...
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Surrey seems to be the hardest word
The High Court decision in Surrey County Council v AB and Others 2014 http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Fam/2014/1115.html This is a judgment which might be pertinent for an elephant in the room...
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Relinquishing for adoption and nothing else will do
This is a High Court case, decided in April, but the report of judgment has only recently come out. I’m grateful to Celtic Knot for ensuring that it came to my attention I touched on the (at that time...
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Tarama-TOLATA
I don’t normally write on financial cases, but this one is rather significant (and one can see that it might end up bleeding into other areas) http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Fam/2014/4110.html...
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I would put this as a must-read (adoption case, dynamite)
The case is very fact-specific (the facts are extraordinary) but it is still very important. I’ve written before about the leave to oppose adoption case law and whether this is a meaningful legal...
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Looks like I picked a bad day to give up not being a veracity assessor
Wigan BC v M (veracity assessments) 2015 http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWFC/HCJ/2015/8.html Veracity assessments, if you don’t know, is where you have an expert, usually a psychologist, to look at...
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Diplomatic immunity – it’s just been revoked
Well, it hasn’t been revoked, but who wouldn’t want the chance to see the classic Lethal Weapon 2 exchange? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwC_IaY3BmY [If any ancillary relief Judge wants to...
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Children travelling to join ISIS
The Tower Hamlets case attracted quite a bit of media attention, and the judgment is now out. It contains quite a bit of practical guidance for all agencies where there is a concern that a child is...
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Breastfeeding mother versus gay couple
I think that this case has probably been in the news, or is about to be. It is yet another example of a case where arrangements that were made before the birth of a child where conception was not the...
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Della was his secretary, Drake’s sat on the desk with Perry
In the High Court, in the case of Wirral Borough Council v KR 2015 http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWFC/HCJ/2015/54.html some serious Perry Mason moves were pulled. If you don’t know who Perry...
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Preacher and Cyanide
This was a Court of Appeal decision about whether a parent can be prevented from giving their children names of their choosing. In this case, the mother had chosen the names “Preacher” and “Cyanide”...
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