Results: 16

• In re M (A Minor) (Contempt of Court: Committal of Court’s Own Motion)

  16 Dec 1998 [1999] Fam 263; [1999] 2 WLR 810; [1999] 2 All ER 56; [1999] 1 FLR 810, CA

  Subsequent citations: 5.
  CONTEMPT OF COURT — County court — Summary jurisdiction
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  CONTEMPT OF COURT — County court — Summary jurisdiction — Breach of contact order endorsed with penal notice — Judge initiating committal proceedings of own motion — Whether circuit judge having jurisdiction to initiate committal proceedings — Whether appropriate for judge to draft particulars of breach — Whether proper exercise of discretion

  2 Case(s) considered
• Wicks v Wicks

  18 Dec 1997 [1999] Fam 65; [1998] 3 WLR 277; [1998] 1 All ER 977; [1998] 1 FLR 470, CA

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive; 1 neutral. Subsequent citations: 13.
  HUSBAND AND WIFE — Financial provision — Pre-trial order
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  HUSBAND AND WIFE — Financial provision — Pre-trial order — Release of capital — Husband transferring ownership of matrimonial home to wife — Wife's application after leaving matrimonial home for order for sale of matrimonial home, delivery up of possession by husband and purchase of new house for wife and children by use of proceeds of sale — Whether jurisdiction to grant — Matrimonial Homes Act 1983, s 1(1)(3) — RSC, Ord 31, r 1 — Family Proceedings Rules 1991, r 264

  4 Case(s) considered

  1 Statute considered

  2 Statutory Instruments considered
• White v White

  19 Jun 1998 [1999] Fam 304; [1999] 2 WLR 1213; [1998] 4 All ER 659; [1998] 2 FLR 310, CA

  26 Oct 2000 [2000] UKHL 54; [2001] 1 AC 596; [2000] 3 WLR 1571; [2001] 1 All ER 1; [2000] 2 FLR 981, HL(E)

  Subsequent considerations : 9 positive; 5 neutral; 1 negative; most recently considered: 2019. Subsequent citations: 174.
  HUSBAND AND WIFE — Financial provision — Lump sum award
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  HUSBAND AND WIFE — Financial provision — Lump sum award — Means of parties — Parties in farming partnership — Substantial contribution to business by wife — Wife's wish to continue similar business — Parties' financial resources exceeding financial needs — Assessment of lump sum payment to wife — Matrimonial Causes Act 1973, s 23 (as substituted by Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984, s 3)

  9 Case(s) considered

• North Yorkshire County Council v Wiltshire County Council

  28 May 1999 [1999] Fam 323; [1999] 3 WLR 836; [1999] 4 All ER 291; [1999] 2 FLR 560, Fam D (Holman J)

  Subsequent citations: 9.
  CHILDREN — Care proceedings — Designated local authority
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  CHILDREN — Care proceedings — Designated local authority — Child voluntarily accommodated with foster parents prior to care proceedings — Foster parents and child moving to new local authority area — Separated natural parents leaving original local authority area — Whether child remaining ordinarily resident in original local authority area — Determination of designated local authority — Children Act 1989, ss 31(8), 105(6)

  3 Case(s) considered

  1 Statute considered

• In re C (A Minor) (Adoption: Freeing Order)

  16 Oct 1998 [1999] Fam 240; [1999] 2 WLR 1079; [1999] 1 FLR 348, Fam D (Wall J)

  Subsequent citations: 6.
  ADOPTION — Freeing child for adoption — Revocation of order
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  ADOPTION — Freeing child for adoption — Revocation of order — Child in care freed for adoption — Mother renouncing right to further involvement — No prospect of adoption — Local authority seeking to share parental responsibility with mother — Whether freeing order to be revoked — Whether court to exercise inherent jurisdiction — Adoption Act 1976, ss 18(6), 19(1), 20(1) — Children Act 1989, s 100 — RSC, Ord 20, r 8

  3 Case(s) considered

  2 Statutes considered

  1 Statutory Instrument considered
• St George’s Healthcare NHS Trust v S (R v Collins, Ex parte S)

  30 Jul 1998 [1999] Fam 26; [1998] 3 WLR 936; [1998] 3 All ER 673; [1998] 2 FLR 728, CA

  Subsequent considerations : 2 neutral. Subsequent citations: 55.
  MEDICAL PRACTITIONER — Medical treatment, consent to — Refusal of Caesarean section
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  MEDICAL PRACTITIONER — Medical treatment, consent to — Refusal of Caesarean section — Adult woman suffering from pre-eclampsia — Lives of mother and unborn child at risk — Admission to mental hospital for assessment — Transfer to general hospital — Judge granting declaration dispensing with mother's consent to Caesarean section — Whether compulsory treatment amounting to trespass — Whether detention lawful — Mental Health Act 1983, ss 2(2), 6(1)(3)

  4 Case(s) considered

  1 Statute considered

• R v P Borough Council, Ex parte S

  21 Apr 1998 [1999] Fam 188; [1999] 2 WLR 777; [1999] LGR 203, Fam D

  Subsequent citations: 2.
  CHILDREN — Childminder — Application for registration
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  CHILDREN — Childminder — Application for registration — Appeal against decision to suspend — Whether local authority having power to suspend registration during investigation or appeal — Children Act 1989, ss 17, 74, 75, 77

  1 Case considered

  1 Statute considered
• In re Christ Church, Alsager

  10 Jul 1998 [1999] Fam 142; [1998] 3 WLR 1394; [1999] 1 All ER 117, Ch Ct

  Subsequent considerations : 3 positive; 3 neutral; 1 negative. Subsequent citations: 19.
  ECCLESIASTICAL LAW — Consistory court — Appeal from

  ECCLESIASTICAL LAW — Faculty — Churchyard
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  ECCLESIASTICAL LAW — Consistory court — Appeal from — Petitioner requesting hearing on written representations — No parties opponent or other interested parties — Whether power to direct hearing on written representations

  ECCLESIASTICAL LAW — Faculty — Churchyard — Disinterment — Cremated remains of petitioner's father buried in garden of remembrance within churchyard — Petitioner's mother's remains buried elsewhere in churchyard 17 years later — Petitioner's wish for both parents to be buried in same grave — Whether faculty for exhumation and reburial of father's cremated remains to be granted

  1 Case considered

• Wicken v Wicken

  27 Apr 1998 [1999] Fam 224; [1999] 2 WLR 1166; [1999] 1 FLR 293, Fam D

  Subsequent citations: 2.
  HUSBAND AND WIFE — Divorce — Foreign decree, recognition of
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  HUSBAND AND WIFE — Divorce — Foreign decree, recognition of — Gambian divorce by letter — Gambian woman divorced by husband in The Gambia — Divorce obtained “otherwise than by means of proceedings” — Whether valid — Matrimonial Causes Act 1973, s 1(3) — Family Law Act 1986, ss 46(2), 51(3)

  1 Case considered

  1 Words & Phrases considered

  2 Statutes considered

• In re C (A Minor) (Adoption: Illegality)

  12 May 1998 [1999] Fam 128; [1999] 2 WLR 202; [1999] 1 FLR 370, Fam D (Johnson J)

  Subsequent citations: 5.
  ADOPTION — Adoption order — Arrangements for adoption
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  ADOPTION — Adoption order — Arrangements for adoption — Child from abroad — Home study report prepared in England — Whether commissioning and preparation of report criminal offence — Instructions and payments to foreign lawyers — Whether offence — Whether adoption order to be granted — Adoption Act 1976, ss 6, 11(1)(3), 57(1)(2), 72(3)

  1 Case considered

  1 Statute considered