Results: 15

• In re R (A Minor) (Wardship: Criminal Proceedings)

  23 Jan 1991 [1991] Fam 56; [1991] 2 WLR 912; [1991] 2 All ER 193; The Times, 24 January 1991, CA (Lord Donaldson MR, Balcombe and Beldam LJJ)

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive; 2 negative. Subsequent citations: 6.
  CHILDREN — Ward of court — Ward as witness
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  CHILDREN — Ward of court — Ward as witness — Police interviewing boy ward — Father charged with criminal offences against boy's three sisters — Prosecution not intending to call boy as witness — Whether leave to be granted to defence to interview boy — Whether leave required for boy to be called as defence witness at trial

  4 Case(s) considered
• In re J (A Minor) (Wardship: Medical Treatment)

  19 Oct 1990 [1991] Fam 33; [1991] 2 WLR 140; [1990] 3 All ER 930; [1991] 1 FLR 366; [1991] FCR 370; The Times, 23 October 1990; The Independent, 23 October 1990, CA (Lord Donaldson of Lymington MR, Balcombe and Taylor LJJ)

  Subsequent considerations : 5 positive; 4 neutral; most recently considered: 2021. Subsequent citations: 86.
  CHILDREN — Ward of court — Medical treatment
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  CHILDREN — Ward of court — Medical treatment — Profoundly handicapped baby suffering intermittent convulsions — Treatment to preclude future resuscitation by mechanical ventilation — Whether in child's best interests

  2 Case(s) considered

• In re St George’s, Deal

  07 Aug 1990 [1991] Fam 6; [1991] 2 WLR 452, Commissary Ct

  Subsequent citations: 1.
  ECCLESIASTICAL LAW — Faculty — Font
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  ECCLESIASTICAL LAW — Faculty — Font — Installation of pool for baptism by immersion — Need for conventional font for baptism by affusion — Symbolism of font not to be detracted from — Whether permissible for church to have more than one font — Whether faculty to be granted

  1 Case considered
• In re F (A Minor) (Abduction: Custody Rights)

  30 Jul 1990 [1991] Fam 25; [1990] 3 WLR 1272; [1990] 3 All ER 97, CA

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive. Subsequent citations: 7.
  MINOR — Custody — Enforcement

  CHILDREN — Custody rights — Enforcement
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  MINOR — Custody — Enforcement — English father and Israeli mother living in Israel — Israeli law giving parents joint custody — Father removing minor from Israeli jurisdiction in breach of mother's custody rights — Mother subsequently obtaining court order giving her custody — Hague Convention on child abduction inapplicable — Whether English court appropriate forum to resolve custody issue — Principles applicable

  CHILDREN — Custody rights — Enforcement — English father and Israeli mother living in Israel — Israeli law giving parents joint custody — Father removing minor from Israeli jurisdiction in breach of mother's custody rights — Mother subsequently obtaining court order giving her custody — Hague Convention on child abduction inapplicable — Whether English court appropriate forum to resolve custody issue — Principles applicable
• In re H (Minors) (Local Authority: Parental Rights) (No 3)

  20 Nov 1990 [1991] Fam 151; [1991] 2 WLR 763; [1991] 2 All ER 185; 89 LGR 537; [1991] FCR 361; (1991) 135 SJ 16; The Times, 21 November 1990, CA (Neill, Balcombe and Mann LJJ)

  Subsequent considerations : 1 neutral. Subsequent citations: 8.
  CHILDREN — Parental rights — Parental rights order
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  CHILDREN — Parental rights — Parental rights order — Father of illegitimate children seeking parental rights order — Degree of commitment towards children — Application by local authority to free children for adoption — Inevitability of father's consent to adoption being dispensed with — Whether parental rights order to be granted — Family Law Reform Act 1987, s 4(1)

  1 Case considered

  1 Statute considered

• In re D (A Minor) (Adoption Order: Validity)

  21 Dec 1990 [1991] Fam 137; [1991] 2 WLR 1215; [1991] 3 All ER 461; The Times, 23 January 1991, CA (Fox, Balcombe and Stocker LJJ)

  Subsequent citations: 2.
  ADOPTION — Adoption order — Validity
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  ADOPTION — Adoption order — Validity — Application to adopt mentally handicapped child six days before majority — Adoption order conferring no benefit during minority — Whether valid — Whether jurisdiction to restrain third parties from having contact with child — Adoption Act 1976, s 12(6)

  4 Case(s) considered

  1 Statute considered
• D v Hereford and Worcester County Council

  22 Oct 1990 [1991] Fam 14; [1991] 2 WLR 753; [1991] 2 All ER 177; 89 LGR 524; The Times, 2 November 1990, Fam D (Ward J)

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive. Subsequent citations: 3.
  CHILDREN — Parental rights — Parental rights order
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  CHILDREN — Parental rights — Parental rights order — Justices making order after consideration of putative father's relationship with child — Whether jurisdiction to grant order — Whether evidence of father's character and circumstances surrounding making of care order relevant — Family Law Reform Act 1987, s 4

  1 Case considered

  1 Statute considered
• Wookey v Wookey (S (A Minor), In re)

  27 Mar 1991 [1991] Fam 121; [1991] 3 WLR 135; [1991] 3 All ER 365; [1991] 2 FLR 319; [1991] FCR 811; The Times, 2 April 1991, CA (Glidewell, Ralph Gibson and Butler-Sloss LJJ)

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive. Subsequent citations: 13.
  INJUNCTION — Interlocutory — Jurisdiction to grant
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  INJUNCTION — Interlocutory — Jurisdiction to grant — Wife seeking non-molestation order against mentally ill husband unfit to plead — Sister seeking non-molestation order to restrain violent behaviour of brother, aged 15 — Whether injunction to be granted against person under mental incapacity — Whether unenforceable injunction to be granted
• F v Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council

  (pet dis) [1991] 2 WLR 1176F, HL(E)

  18 May 1990 [1991] Fam 69; [1991] 2 WLR 1132; [1991] 2 All ER 648; The Times, 28 May 1990, CA

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive; 1 negative. Subsequent citations: 16.
  CHILDREN — Parental rights — Child in voluntary care

  PRACTICE — Pleadings — Striking out
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  CHILDREN — Parental rights — Child in voluntary care — Mother placing children in voluntary care — Local authority assuming parental rights — Children placed with long term foster parents with view to adoption — Claim against local authority for negligence and interference with parental rights — Whether cause of action in negligence against local authority — Whether tort of interference with parental rights

  PRACTICE — Pleadings — Striking out — Mother placing children in voluntary care — Local authority assuming parental rights and placing children for adoption — Mother's claim against local authority for negligence and interference with parental rights — Application by local authority to strike out claim — Mother seeking to amend pleadings to allege concealment of cause of action — Whether leave to amend properly refused — Whether statement of claim to be struck out — RSC, Ord 18, r 19(1)(a)(b)

  3 Case(s) considered

  1 Statutory Instrument considered
• In re St Barnabas, Kensington

  22 Oct 1988 [1991] Fam 1; [1991] 2 WLR 447; [1990] 1 All ER 169

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive. Subsequent citations: 3.
  ECCLESIASTICAL LAW — Faculty — Font
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  ECCLESIASTICAL LAW — Faculty — Font — Installation of pool for baptism by immersion — Need for conventional font for baptism by affusion — Whether permissible for church to have more than one font — Whether faculty to be granted