• KOUKASH V KOUKASH Neutral Citation Number: [2022] EWHC 1001 (Fam) Beware the “booby trapped bundle”

    30 May 2023

    Keeping it in the Family – HHJ Hess gives guidance on family loans in financial remedies proceedings

    21 February 2022

    What happens when “till death do us part” becomes “till death whilst we part”?

    21 January 2022

    Court of Appeal authorises publication of family judgment identifying parents

    19 January 2022

    Should a child in care receive coronavirus and winter flu’ vaccines against a parent’s wishes?

    02 December 2021

    Not a ‘white leopard case’ (E v L [2021] EWFC 60)

    11 November 2021

    Twenty Eight Improper Divorce Petitions

    13 October 2021

    Domestic Abuse – The Wrong Principles – Re A [2021]

    19 June 2021

    Lack of Decree Nisi at Final Hearing not Overcome by DDJ’s Words

    05 April 2021

    Order Refusing Intervenor Access to Hard Copies of Documents Upheld

    05 April 2021

    Urgent Application to Allow “Grave Step” of Compelling Hospitalisation and Treatment

    05 April 2021

    Summary Dismissal of F’s Application for Contact with Children in Care

    05 April 2021

    Is this the end of Scott Schedules in Child Contact Cases where Domestic Abuse is an Issue?

    30 March 2021

    Naming of Father on Birth Certificate of an Adopted Child

    09 February 2021

    Consideration of Issue of Non-Notification to Family of a Birth Must be at a “Very Early Stage”

    09 February 2021

    Similar Fact Evidence: Control and Coercion

    09 February 2021

    Special Guardianship Rules and Choice of Religion

    09 February 2021

    The Final Word on Applications for Deprivation of Liberty?

    09 February 2021

    Dispute Between Parents Over Innoculations

    09 February 2021

    Recusal by District Judge Following Fact Finding Hearing.

    24 December 2020

    Comity, comity, comity!

    24 December 2020

    Purposive Interpretation of Time Limits:  Re A (A Child: Adoption Time Limits s44(3)) [2020] EWHC 3296 (Fam)

    23 December 2020

    Supreme Court Declines to Hear Transgender Man’s Appeal to be Registered as Father

    21 December 2020

    Consent Orders: CB v EB [2020] EWFC 72

    21 December 2020

    H v An Adoption Agency (Declaration of Parentage following Adoption) [2020] EWFC 74

    21 December 2020

    Legal Aid for Domestic Abuse victim when assets are not realisable: R(on the application of GR) v Director of Legal Aid Casework & Anor [2020] EWHC 3140 (Admin)

    21 December 2020

    Recent Decision on Joinder of Father in Care Proceedings

    03 December 2020

    Passport Orders. Rarely more than a temporary measure in very specific circumstances..

    30 November 2020

    Moutreuil v Andreewitch: Sentence for breaches of freezing injunction.

    30 November 2020

    MG v AG (Appeal Out of Time: Relief from Sanctions) [2020] EWFC B49

    30 November 2020

    All factors relating to a decision to allow relocation overseas must be properly analysed.

    03 November 2020

    DFJ warns parties and lawyers engaging in “wasteful litigation”. Criticism and sanctions may follow.

    03 November 2020

    Litigation Conduct: H’s needs put at risk

    26 October 2020

    Hewson v Wells & Ors [2020] EWHC 2722 (Ch) No Costs Awarded on Discontinuance: CPR 38.6

    21 October 2020

    Court of Appeal Re:N (Children Interim Order/Stay)[2020] EWCA Civ 1070 12.8.20

    14 August 2020

    Complex Case: Adjournment During Remote Final Hearing: Re: A Local Authority [2020] EWHC 1233 (Fam) – Williams J – 15th May 2020

    18 May 2020

    The Slip Rule: The Secretary of State for the Home Department v Yagnesh Devani [2020] EWCA Civ 612 (6 May 2020)

    10 May 2020

    Interviewing of Minors: Best Evidence: Accept no Substitute

    10 May 2020

    Vegetative Patients: Withdrawal of Life Support.

    10 May 2020

    Private Law: Re Q [2020] EWHC 1109 (Fam)

    07 May 2020

    Proprietary Estoppel: When is a Promise a Promise: Guest v Guest [2020] EWCA Civ 387

    07 May 2020

    Re A (Children) (Remote Hearing: Care and Placement Orders) 22nd April 2020

    30 April 2020

    Re B (Children)(Remote Hearing: Interim Care Order) 23rd April 2020

    30 April 2020

    RE P (A CHILD: REMOTE HEARING) [2020] EWFC 32 (corrected)

    21 April 2020

    The Right to Silence in Committal Proceedings

    13 April 2020

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