Results: 9

• Rowe v Rowe

  10 Apr 1979 [1980] Fam 47; [1979] 3 WLR 101; [1979] 2 All ER 1123, CA

  Subsequent citations: 5.
  ESTOPPEL — Per rem judicatam — Husband and wife
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  ESTOPPEL — Per rem judicatam — Husband and wife — Custody — Petition alleging two children of family — Court order relating to custody of children in undefended suit — Subsequent denial by husband of acceptance of children as children of family — Whether husband estopped from denying that children children of family

  5 Case(s) considered
• In re W (Minors) (Wardship: Jurisdiction)

  10 Oct 1978 [1980] Fam 60; [1979] 3 WLR 252; [1979] 3 All ER 154, CA

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive. Subsequent citations: 3.
  CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS — Care of — Child received into care by local authority

  MINOR — Ward of court — Jurisdiction
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  CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS — Care of — Child received into care by local authority — Local authority denying mother access to children — Mother commencing wardship proceedings seeking order for access — Jurisdiction of High Court — Children and Young Persons Act 1969, s 1

  MINOR — Ward of court — Jurisdiction — Child in care of local authority — Mother seeking access to child — Wardship proceedings — Whether court having jurisdiction to review merits of local authority's decision

  3 Case(s) considered

  1 Statute considered

• In re St Mary Magdalene’s Paddington

  05 Nov 1979 [1980] Fam 99; [1980] 3 WLR 243; [1980] 1 All ER 279, Const Ct

  Subsequent citations: 3.
  ECCLESIASTICAL LAW — Ecclesiastical property — Churchyard
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  ECCLESIASTICAL LAW — Ecclesiastical property — Churchyard — Disposition of unconsecrated churchyard — Incumbent's power to convey land — New Parishes Measure 1943, s 17 (as amended by Church Property (Miscellaneous Provisions) Measure 1960, s 6 (2))

  1 Case considered

  1 Statute considered
• M v Wigan Metropolitan Borough Council

  26 Mar 1979 [1980] Fam 36; [1979] 3 WLR 244; [1979] 2 All ER 958; 77 LGR 556, DC

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive. Subsequent citations: 1.
  CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS — Care of — Child received into care by local authority
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  CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS — Care of — Child received into care by local authority — Parents' pattern of rejection — Mother's frequent pregnancies complicated by ill-health — Failure to adopt reliable form of birth control — Parents reluctant to have children at home — Authority's resolution assuming parental rights — Whether parents “consistently” failing in parental obligations — Children Act 1948, s 2 (1) (as substituted by Children Act 1975, s 57)

  1 Case considered

  1 Words & Phrases considered

  1 Statute considered
• In re St Thomas, Lymington

  15 Jun 1979 [1980] Fam 89; [1980] 2 WLR 267; [1980] 2 All ER 84, Const Ct

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive; 1 neutral. Subsequent citations: 5.
  ECCLESIASTICAL LAW — Faculty — Extension to church
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  ECCLESIASTICAL LAW — Faculty — Extension to church — Erection of building to provide halls, choir vestry, kitchen and flower room — Whether building for “purpose of enlarging church” — Opposition by non-church-going parishioners — Whether entitled to be considered — Matters to be taken into account in determining whether building necessary — Whether faculty to be granted — Disused Burial Grounds Act 1884, s 3

  1 Case considered

  1 Words & Phrases considered

  1 Statute considered
• Day v Day

  21 Dec 1978 [1980] Fam 29; [1979] 2 WLR 681; [1979] 2 All ER 187, CA

  Subsequent considerations : 2 neutral. Subsequent citations: 4.
  HUSBAND AND WIFE — Practice — Undefended matrimonial causes
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  HUSBAND AND WIFE — Practice — Undefended matrimonial causes — Special procedure — Registrar's certificate that petitioner entitled to decree — Date fixed for pronouncement of decree in open court — Notice given to respondent — Respondent attending before judge to show cause why decree not to be pronounced — Whether jurisdiction to grant leave to file answer out of time — Matrimonial Causes Rules 1977, r 48 (1) (2)

  1 Case considered

  1 Statutory Instrument considered
• Kokosinski v Kokosinski

  29 Oct 1979 [1980] Fam 72; [1980] 3 WLR 55; [1980] 1 All ER 1106, Fam D

  Subsequent considerations : 1 neutral. Subsequent citations: 5.
  HUSBAND AND WIFE — Financial provision — Duration of marriage
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  HUSBAND AND WIFE — Financial provision — Duration of marriage — Cohabitation before marriage — Short marriage preceded by long period of cohabitation — Whether conduct during period of cohabitation to be taken into account — Matrimonial Causes Act 1973, s 25 (1)

  4 Case(s) considered

  1 Statute considered
• Puttick v Attorney-General

  08 May 1979 [1980] Fam 1; [1979] 3 WLR 542; [1979] 3 All ER 463, Fam D

  Subsequent considerations : 1 neutral. Subsequent citations: 11.
  CONFLICT OF LAWS — Domicile — Change

  HUSBAND AND WIFE — Marriage — Validity
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  CONFLICT OF LAWS — Domicile — Change — Fraudulent entry into United Kingdom — Foreigner committting fraud and perjury to remain in country and to marry Englishman — Reliance on marriage as proof of domicile — Whether wife retaining dependent domicile by choice — Effect of fraud on wife's choice of domicile — Domicile and Matrimonial Proceedings Act 1973, s 1

  HUSBAND AND WIFE — Marriage — Validity — Jurisdiction to grant declaration — Petitioner giving name and details of another woman for purposes of entry into United Kingdom — Subsequent marriage by licence under false name and particulars — Validity of marriage — Whether just to grant declaration — Matrimonial Causes Act 1973, s 45 (1) (5)

  3 Case(s) considered

  2 Statutes considered
• C v C (Divorce: Exceptional Hardship)

  23 Nov 1978 [1980] Fam 23; [1979] 2 WLR 95; [1979] 1 All ER 556, CA

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive. Subsequent citations: 2.
  HUSBAND AND WIFE — Divorce — Petition within three years
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  HUSBAND AND WIFE — Divorce — Petition within three years — Exceptional hardship or depravity — Husband homosexual — No sexual interest in wife after marriage — Whether exceptional hardship or depravity — Matrimonial Causes Act 1973, s 3 (2)

  1 Statute considered