Results: 15

• In re K (Minors) (Wardship: Criminal Proceedings)

  24 Aug 1987 [1988] Fam 1; [1987] 3 WLR 1233; [1988] 1 All ER 214, Fam D

  Subsequent considerations : 3 positive. Subsequent citations: 11.
  MINOR — Ward of court — Police investigation
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  MINOR — Ward of court — Police investigation — Children placed in care of local authority — Police investigating whether children victims of criminal offences — Parents charged with offences — Children made wards of court — Whether leave of court required for wards to be called as witnesses at trial

  1 Case considered

• T v T

  10 Jul 1987 [1988] Fam 52; [1988] 2 WLR 189; [1988] 1 All ER 613, Fam D

  Subsequent citations: 5.
  LAW REFORM — Whether necessary — Mentally handicapped adult

  TRESPASS — Person — Battery
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  LAW REFORM — Whether necessary — Mentally handicapped adult — Inability to consent to operation — Need to restore Crown's residual parens patriae jurisdiction

  TRESPASS — Person — Battery — Surgical operation on mentally handicapped adult — Adult unable to consent to operation — Whether operation without consent justified — Jurisdiction of court to grant declaration as to validity of proposed operation

  4 Case(s) considered

• Atkinson v Atkinson

  (pet dis) [1988] 2 WLR 217, HL(E)

  11 Aug 1987 [1988] Fam 93; [1988] 2 WLR 204; [1987] 3 All ER 849, CA

  Subsequent citations: 2.
  HUSBAND AND WIFE — Financial provision — Periodical payments order
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  HUSBAND AND WIFE — Financial provision — Periodical payments order — Variation — Application to reduce amount of periodical payments — Wife in receipt of substantial periodical payments cohabiting with man on low income — Cohabitee capable of earning much more — Wife and cohabitee intending to remain unmarried — Husband's application to reduce periodical payments to nominal sum — Whether cohabitation decisive factor on application — Matrimonial Causes Act 1973, s 31(7)(a) (as substituted by Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984, s 6(3))

  4 Case(s) considered
• In re F (in utero)

  04 Feb 1988 [1988] Fam 122; [1988] 2 WLR 1288; [1988] 2 All ER 193, CA

  Subsequent considerations : 1 neutral. Subsequent citations: 13.
  MINOR — Ward of court — Jurisdiction
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  MINOR — Ward of court — Jurisdiction — Sterilisation operation — Unborn child — Fear for safety of child from moment of birth — Whether court having power to exercise wardship jurisdiction over mother and foetus

  2 Case(s) considered

• Kyte v Kyte

  22 Jul 1987 [1988] Fam 145; [1987] 3 WLR 1114; [1987] 3 All ER 1041, CA

  HUSBAND AND WIFE — Financial provision — Conduct of parties
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  HUSBAND AND WIFE — Financial provision — Conduct of parties — “Inequitable to disregard it” — Husband suffering from depression and suicidal — Wife at first rescuing husband from attempted suicides — Wife forming adulterous relationship — Wife assisting husband to attempt suicide — Whether inequitable to disregard wife's conduct — Matrimonial Causes Act 1973, s 25(2)(g) (as substituted by Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984, s 3)

  1 Words & Phrases considered
• Pritchard v J H Cobden Ltd

  26 Nov 1986 [1988] Fam 22; [1987] 2 WLR 627; [1987] 1 All ER 300, CA

  Subsequent considerations : 1 neutral. Subsequent citations: 16.
  DAMAGES — Earnings, loss of — Future earnings

  DAMAGES — Personal injuries — Divorce
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  DAMAGES — Earnings, loss of — Future earnings — Injured plaintiff awarded special damages and future loss of earnings from date of trial — Future loss of earnings not to be calculated from date of accident

  DAMAGES — Personal injuries — Divorce — Plaintiff sustaining brain damage causing personality change — Injuries due to defendants' negligence — Breakdown of marriage — Wife's claim for ancillary relief following divorce — Extra expense of maintaining wife and family in separate establishment — Whether recoverable against defendants

  5 Case(s) considered

• McVeigh v Beattie

  27 Nov 1987 [1988] Fam 69; [1988] 2 WLR 992; [1988] 2 All ER 500, Fam D

  Subsequent citations: 2.
  AFFILIATION — Corroboration — Blood tests
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  AFFILIATION — Corroboration — Blood tests — Non-compliance with direction for blood test — Whether non-compliance “other evidence” capable of corroborating mother's evidence in some material particular — Affiliation Proceedings Act 1957, s 4(1) (as amended by Affiliation Proceedings (Amendment) Act 1972, s 1(1)) — Family Law Reform Act 1969, ss 20(1), 23(1)

  2 Case(s) considered

  1 Words & Phrases considered

  2 Statutes considered

• Kashmir Kaur v Gill

  15 Mar 1988 [1988] Fam 110; [1988] 3 WLR 39; [1988] 2 All ER 288, CA

  HUSBAND AND WIFE — Matrimonial home — Act of 1983
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  HUSBAND AND WIFE — Matrimonial home — Act of 1983 — Registration of charge under Act — Wife registering right of occupation of matrimonial home — Husband selling matrimonial home — Wife's application to enforce right of occupation — Judge taking into account “all the circumstances of the case” — Whether circumstances of purchaser to be taken into account — Matrimonial Homes Act 1983, ss 1(3), 2(5)

  1 Words & Phrases considered

• Maples (formerly Melamud) v Maples (Maples (formerly Melamud) v Melamud)

  26 Mar 1987 [1988] Fam 14; [1987] 3 WLR 487; [1987] 3 All ER 188, Fam D

  HUSBAND AND WIFE — Divorce — Foreign decree, recognition of
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  HUSBAND AND WIFE — Divorce — Foreign decree, recognition of — Jewish get — Jewish get of divorce obtained in London — Judgment of confirmation in Israel — Whether together entitled to recognition — Whether marriage still subsisting — Foreign Judgments (Reciprocal Enforcement) Act 1933, s 8(1)(2) — Domicile and Matrimonial Proceedings Act 1973, s 16(1)

  2 Case(s) considered

  1 Statute considered

• Ashley v Blackman

  28 Oct 1987 [1988] Fam 85; [1988] 3 WLR 222, Fam D

  Subsequent citations: 1.
  HUSBAND AND WIFE — Financial provision — Periodical payments order
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  HUSBAND AND WIFE — Financial provision — Periodical payments order — Variation — Parties of very limited means — Wife receiving supplementary benefit — Wife's income unaffected by any variation — Whether “clean break” principle to be applied — Matrimonial Causes Act 1973, s 31(7) (as substituted by Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984, s 6(3))

  1 Case considered