Results: 26

• B v A Local Authority

  21 Feb 2019 [2019] EWCOP 3; (2019) 168 BMLR 72; [2019] Med LR 143; [2019] COPLR 163, Ct of Protection (Cobb J)

  11 Jun 2019 [2019] EWCA Civ 913; [2020] Fam 105; [2019] 3 WLR 685; [2019] 2 FLR 1001; [2019] WLR (D) 330, CA (Sir Terence Etherton MR, King, Leggatt LJJ)

  13 Oct 2020 (appn dis) [2021] 1 WLR 516, SC(E) (Lord Hodge DPSC, Lady Black, Lord Kitchin JJSC)

  Subsequent considerations : 2 neutral. Subsequent citations: 21.
  MENTAL DISORDER — Capacity — Determination
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  MENTAL DISORDER — Capacity — Determination — Woman with learning disability wishing to cohabit with man convicted of sexual offences — Judge granting declarations that woman having capacity to make decisions about residence but lacking capacity to make decisions about her care, contact with others, use of social media and consent to sexual relations — Whether judge applying correct test for capacity — Whether judge correctly identifying “information relevant” to decisions — Whether irreconcilable conflict between judge’s declarations — Mental Capacity Act 2005 (c 9), ss 2(1), 3

  4 Case(s) considered

  1 Words & Phrases considered

  1 Statute considered

• Secretary of State for the Home Department v Suffolk County Council (In re A (A Child) (Female Genital Mutilation: Asylum))

  25 Sep 2019 [2019] EWHC 2475 (Fam); [2020] 1 FLR 253, Fam D (Sir Andrew McFarlane P)

  15 Jun 2020 [2020] EWCA Civ 731; [2020] Fam 411; [2020] 3 WLR 742; [2021] 1 All ER 396; [2020] 2 FLR 987; [2020] WLR (D) 345, CA (Ryder, King, Hickinbottom LJJ)

  Subsequent citations: 9.
  CHILDREN — Orders relating to children — Female genital mutilation protection order
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  CHILDREN — Orders relating to children — Female genital mutilation protection order

  CHILDREN — Orders relating to children — Female genital mutilation protection order — Secretary of State refusing mother’s application for asylum based on risk to daughter of genital mutilation if removed from United Kingdom — First-tier Tribunal dismissing appeal finding no such risk arising — Local authority applying to Family Court for female genital mutilation protection order — Whether tribunal’s prior assessment of risk starting point for Family Court’s determination — Female Genital Mutilation Act 2003 (c 31), Sch 2, para 1

  1 Case considered

  1 Statute considered

• Potanin v Potanina

  08 Nov 2019 [2019] EWHC 2956 (Fam); [2020] Fam 189; [2020] 2 WLR 311; [2020] 1 FLR 616; [2019] WLR (D) 632, Fam D (Cohen J)

  13 May 2021 [2021] EWCA Civ 702; [2022] Fam 23; [2021] 3 WLR 967; [2021] 2 FLR 1457; [2021] WLR(D) 279; The Times, 15 June 2021, CA (King, David Richards, Moylan LJJ)

  27 May 2022 (appn all) [2022] 1 WLR 3877, SC(E) (Lord Reed PSC, Lord Leggatt, Lord Stephens JJSC)

  Subsequent citations: 3.
  MARRIAGE — Divorce — Financial provision
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  MARRIAGE — Divorce — Financial provision — Russian court dissolving parties’ marriage and ordering financial provision for wife — Wife applying to English court for financial relief — Whether appropriate for English court to order financial relief — Whether court entitled to dismiss wife’s application on ground of lack of connection with England and Wales — Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984 (c 42), s 16 (as amended by Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments (Maintenance) Regulations 2011 (SI 2011/1484), Sch 7, para 10) — Council Regulation (EC) No 4/2009

  MARRIAGE — Divorce — Financial provision — Wife seeking leave to apply for financial relief following overseas divorce — Judge granting leave at without notice hearing — Proper approach to husband’s application to set aside grant of leave — Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984 (c 42), s 13(1), 16 — FPR rr 8.25, 18.11

  5 Case(s) considered

  1 EU Enactment considered

  1 Statute considered

  1 Statutory Instrument considered

• Bagguley v E

  25 Oct 2019 [2019] EWCOP 49; [2020] Fam 267; [2020] 2 WLR 236; [2019] WLR(D) 604, Ct of Protection (Hayden J)

  MENTAL DISORDER — Court of Protection — Jurisdiction
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  MENTAL DISORDER — Court of Protection — Jurisdiction — Application to authorise taking of DNA samples from incapacitous adult approaching end of life to resolve paternity dispute — Statutory source of jurisdiction to grant such authorisation — Whether in best interests of incapacitous adult for samples to be taken and tested — Whether order of court capable of amounting to consent for posthumous taking or holding of samples — Observations on urgent applications to Court of Protection — Family Law Reform Act 1969 (c 46) (as amended by Family Law Reform Act 1987 (c 42), ss 23, 33(1), Sch 2, para 22 and Mental Capacity Act 2005 (c 9), s 68(6), Sch 6, para 15), ss 20, 21 — Human Tissue Act 2004 (c 30), s 3(6), Sch 4, para 2 — Mental Capacity Act 2005 (c 9), ss 15, 16(2)

  2 Case(s) considered

  3 Statutes considered

• In re H (A Child)

  16 Apr 2019 [2019] EWCA Civ 672; [2020] Fam 375; [2019] 3 WLR 1143; [2019] 2 FLR 653; [2019] WLR (D) 293, CA (McCombe, Moylan, Leggatt LJJ)

  22 May 2019 Permission to appeal to Supreme Court refused

  CHILDREN — Custody rights — Jurisdiction
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  CHILDREN — Custody rights — Jurisdiction — Child habitually resident in Australia retained in Uganda before being taken to England — Father applying for child’s return to Australia — Whether Convention applying when wrongful retention occurring in non-Convention state — Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction (1980), art 1

  2 Case(s) considered

  1 International Agreement considered

• FRB v DCA

  28 Oct 2019 [2019] EWHC 2816 (Fam); [2020] Fam 211; [2020] 2 WLR 671; [2020] 1 FLR 605; [2019] WLR (D) 656, Fam D (Cohen J)

  MARRIAGE — Divorce — Financial provision
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  MARRIAGE — Divorce — Financial provision — Tort of deceit — Wife petitioning for divorce and husband issuing financial remedy proceedings — Husband discovering not biological father to child of marriage and alleging “paternity fraud” — Husband issuing claim for tort of deceit — Whether such tort existing between husband and wife in respect of intimate matters — Whether abuse of process for claim to continue in parallel with financial remedy proceedings and statutory regime governing determination thereof — Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 (c 18), s 25(2)(g) (as substituted by Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984 (c 42), ss 3, 48(2)) — CPR r 3.4(2)

  MARRIAGE — Divorce — Financial provision — Husband issuing financial remedy proceedings and bringing claim against wife in tort of deceit — Whether abuse of process for claim in deceit to continue in parallel with financial remedy proceedings — Whether claim in deceit to be struck out — Whether tort of deceit existing between husband and wife in respect of intimate matters — Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 (c 18), s 25(2)(g) (as substituted by Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984 (c 42), s 3) — CPR r 3.4(2)

  MARRIAGE — Divorce — Financial provision — Husband issuing financial remedy proceedings and bringing claim against wife in tort of deceit — Whether abuse of process for claim in deceit to continue in parallel with financial remedy proceedings — Whether claim in deceit to be struck out — Whether tort of deceit existing between husband and wife in respect of intimate matters — Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 (c 18), s 25(2)(g) (as substituted by Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984 (c 42), s 3 and amended by Pensions Act 2008 (c 30), s 120, Sch 6, para 4) — CPR r 3.4(2)

  1 Case considered

  1 Statute considered

  1 Statutory Instrument considered

• A City Council v LS

  04 Jun 2019 [2019] EWHC 1384 (Fam); [2020] Fam 28; [2019] 3 WLR 475; [2020] 1 All ER 652; [2019] 2 FLR 1197; [2019] WLR (D) 316, Fam D (MacDonald J)

  Subsequent citations: 4.
  CHILDREN — Inherent jurisdiction — Secure accommodation
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  CHILDREN — Inherent jurisdiction — Secure accommodation — 17-year-old child deemed to be at risk of significant harm — Local authority applying under inherent jurisdiction for authorisation to place child in secure accommodation — Child not accommodated by local authority nor subject to care order — Whether power under inherent jurisdiction to authorise placement — Children Act 1989 (c 41) (as amended by Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014 (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2016 (SI 2016/413), reg 86 and Children and Social Work Act 2017 (c 16), s 10, Sch 1, para 2), ss 25, 100(2)(b) — Human Rights Act 1998 (c 42), Sch 1, Pt I, art 2

  5 Case(s) considered

  2 Statutes considered
• In re T (A Child) (A Local Authority v W)

  23 Jan 2018 [2018] EWHC 576 (Fam), Fam D (Mostyn J)

  22 Mar 2018 [2018] EWHC 816 (Fam), Fam D (Mostyn J)

  04 Oct 2018 [2018] EWCA Civ 2136; [2020] Fam 1; [2019] 2 WLR 1173; [2019] 1 FLR 965; [2018] WLR (D) 711, CA (Sir Andrew McFarlane P, Moylan, Peter Jackson LJJ)

  05 Nov 2019 (appn all) [2019] 1 WLR 6676; [2021] 4 All ER 665; Case details, SC(E) (Baroness Hale of Richmond PSC, Lord Hodge, Lady Arden JJSC)

  30 Jul 2021 [2021] UKSC 35; [2022] AC 723; [2021] 3 WLR 643; [2021] 2 FLR 1041; [2021] WLR(D) 428; The Times, 16 August 2021; Press summary, SC(E) (Lord Lloyd-Jones, Lady Arden, Lord Hamblen, Lord Stephens JJSC, Lady Black)

  Subsequent considerations : 3 positive; 1 neutral; 1 negative; most recently considered: 2021. Subsequent citations: 49.
  CHILDREN — Inherent jurisdiction — Secure accommodation
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  CHILDREN — Inherent jurisdiction — Secure accommodation — Local authority wishing to place child in unapproved secure children’s home outside statutory scheme — Local authority applying for order under court’s inherent jurisdiction authorising placement depriving child of liberty — Whether lack of valid consent on part of child necessary condition of jurisdiction arising — Children Act 1989 (c 41), s 25 — Human Rights Act 1998 (c 42), Sch 1, Pt I, art 5 — Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014 (anaw 4), s 119

  CHILDREN — Inherent jurisdiction — Secure accommodation — Local authority wishing to place child in unapproved secure children’s home outside statutory scheme — Whether authorisation of such placement permissible exercise of inherent jurisdiction — Children Act 1989 (c 41), ss 25, 100 — Human Rights Act 1998 (c 42), Sch 1, Pt I, art 5 — Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014 (anaw 4), s 119

  3 Case(s) considered

  3 Statutes considered

• R (TT) v Registrar General for England and Wales (AIRE Centre intervening) (R (McConnell) v Registrar General for England and Wales (AIRE Centre intervening))

  25 Sep 2019 [2019] EWHC 2384 (Fam); [2020] Fam 45; [2019] 3 WLR 1195; [2020] 2 All ER 813; [2020] 1 FLR 676; [2020] 1 FCR 114; [2019] HRLR 17; [2019] WLR (D) 526, Fam D (Sir Andrew McFarlane P)

  29 Apr 2020 [2020] EWCA Civ 559; [2021] Fam 77; [2020] 3 WLR 683; [2020] 2 All ER 813; [2020] 2 FLR 366; [2020] WLR (D) 254, CA (Lord Burnett of Maldon CJ, King, Singh LJJ)

  09 Nov 2020 (appn dis) [2021] 1 WLR 684, SC(E) (Lord Hodge DPSC, Lady Arden, Lord Sales JJSC)

  Subsequent citations: 15.
  REGISTRATION OF BIRTHS AND DEATHS — Registration of mother — Transgender male
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  REGISTRATION OF BIRTHS AND DEATHS — Registration of mother — Transgender male — Female-born claimant undergoing gender transition and obtaining gender recognition certificate as male — Claimant subsequently giving birth to child — Registry Office refusing to register claimant as child’s father on birth certificate — Whether transgender man giving birth to child “mother” for purposes of domestic law — Whether refusal to register such man as father discriminatory and disproportionate interference with Convention rights — Whether declaration of incompatibility to be granted — Human Rights Act 1998 (c 42), s 4, Sch 1, Pt I, arts 8, 14 — Gender Recognition Act 2004 (c 7), ss 9, 12 — Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008 (c 22), s 33

  REGISTRATION OF BIRTHS AND DEATHS — Registration of mother — Transgender male — Female-born claimant undergoing gender transition and obtaining gender recognition certificate as male — Claimant subsequently giving birth to child — Registry Office refusing to register claimant as child’s father on birth certificate — Whether transgender man giving birth to child “mother” for purposes of domestic law — Whether refusal to register such man as father discriminatory and disproportionate interference with Convention rights — Human Rights Act 1998 (c 42), s 4, Sch 1, Pt I, art 8 — Gender Recognition Act 2004 (c 7), ss 9, 12

  6 Case(s) considered

  3 Statutes considered

• A Local Authority v AG

  16 Mar 2020 [2020] EWFC 18; [2020] Fam 311; [2020] 3 WLR 133; [2021] 1 All ER 257; [2020] 1 FLR 1265; [2020] WLR (D) 201, Fam Ct (Mostyn J)

  Subsequent citations: 4.
  CHILDREN — Care proceedings — Diplomatic immunity
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  CHILDREN — Care proceedings — Diplomatic immunity — Local authority issuing care proceedings in respect of children of foreign diplomat — Whether diplomatic immunity preventing continuation of proceedings — Whether Convention on Diplomatic Relations to be read down so as to give effect to rights under Human Rights Convention — Diplomatic Privileges Act 1964 (c 81), Sch 1, arts 31(1), 37(1) — Human Rights Act 1998 (c 42), s 3, Sch 1, Pt I, art 3

  4 Case(s) considered

  2 Statutes considered