Y County Council v ZZ [2012] EWHC B34 (Ch) (25 July 2012)

Application by local authority for declarations that a man lacked capacity and that it was lawful to deprive him of his liberty. Declarations made as sought.

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Re J (A Child) (Learning Disabled Parent) (No 2) [2013] EWHC (13 March 2013)

Care proceedings involving learning disabled mother. She had done well in two assessments and therefore the local authority conceded that a supervision order would be sufficient.

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Re J (A Child) (Learning Disabled Parent) [2012] EWHC (12 October 2012)

Care proceedings involving learning disabled mother. There was insufficient evidence available about the child's chances of being successfully brought up by his mother and, therefore, a further assessment was directed.

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R (C) v Chief Constable of Lincolnshire Police [2013] EWHC 1174 (Admin) (20 March 2013)

Application by mother for permission to bring judicial review proceedings in respect of police failure to charge the father with child abduction. Permission refused.

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S (A Child), Re [2013] EW Misc 2 (CC) (20 March 2013)

Care proceedings. Judgment relating to a fact finding hearing concerned with the causation of a number of bone fractures sustained by the child.

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G-H (Children) , Re [2013] EWCA Civ 535 (16 April 2013)

Application for permission to appeal against care and placement orders. Application refused.

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Bandak v Howell [2013] EWCA Civ 531 (11 April 2013)

Application for permission to appeal against an order for sale in favour of a third party creditor in financial remedy proceedings. Application granted.

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MR (A Child) [2013] EWHC 1156 (Fam) (07 May 2013)

Care proceedings. Hearing as to whether the court should make care and placement orders or instead evaluate whether rehabilitation between the child and his mother was a viable option.

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MR v Habboo for Kent County Council [2012] EWHC 4258 (Fam) (16 November 2012)

Care proceedings. Fact-finding hearing concerning what part, if any, the parents played in the child's injuries.

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A (a child), Re (a child) [2013] EWCA Civ 543 (16 May 2013)

Appeal by mother against interim contact order in favour of father. Appeal allowed.

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CR v SR [2013] EWHC 1155 (Fam) (22 January 2013)

Application by husband for permission to appeal financial remedy order. Application granted.

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R v R [2011] EWHC 1535 (Fam) (15 June 2011)

Proceedings relating to a child born to a Thai mother, who had falsely persuaded her husband that he was the child's father.

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SM v HM [2011] EWHC B30 (COP) (04 November 2011)

Judgment dealing with issue of whether it is ever appropriate for the Court to authorise the creation of a trust – in particular a personal injury trust - of the assets of a person lacking capacity as the means of administering those assets for him, rather than appointing a deputy for him under s 16 of the Mental Capacity Act.

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IH (A Child) (Permission to Apply for Adoption) [2013] EWHC 1235 (Fam) (14 May 2013)

Application for leave to make an adoption application pursuant to s.42(6) of the Adoption and Children Act 2002, where the child had not lived with the applicants for three years during the five years preceding the application. Application refused.

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DR v GR and Others (Financial Remedy: Variation of Overseas Trust) [2013] 1196 (Fam) (10 May 2013)

Judgment in application by wife for variation of post-nuptial settlement comprising a discretionary Jersey trust.

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D (A Child) [2012] EWHC 4231 (Fam) (14 December 2012)

Care proceedings involving child brought to this country from Nigeria after bogus fertility treatment there, and the extent to which the 'parents' knew the child was not their own.

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Vince v Wyatt [2013] EWCA Civ 495 (08 May 2013)

Appeal by husband against the dismissal of his application to strike out the wife's claim for a financial remedy, which she issued some 18 years after the parties were divorced. Appeal allowed.

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SC v London Borough Of Hackney [2010] EWHC B29 (COP) (05 August 2010)

Appeal against order for costs in Court of Protection proceedings. Appeal allowed.

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L (A Child) [2013] EWCA Civ 489 (03 May 2013)

Appeal against interim care order. Appeal allowed and interim supervision order substituted.

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Slutsker v Haron [2013] EWCA Civ 430 (1 May 2013)

Dispute between a Russian husband and wife, where the husband argued that a half share of the beneficial interest in a multi-million pound London property was held on trust for him absolutely, whilst the wife argued that the whole of the beneficial interest was held by the first respondent on trust for the second respondent.

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