A (A Child) [2013] EWCA Civ 1104 Appeal in a long running contact case against a no direct contact order. Guidance given on applicability of Re B (A Child) [2013] to private law cases and the correct approach to implacable hostility to contact cases The case concerned a girl, M...

This judgment deals with two separate appeals made by parents against refusals to grant them permission to oppose adoption of their children pursuant to s.47(5) of the Adoption and Children Act 2002. In both cases care and placement orders had already been granted and the respective children had...

Neutral Citation Number: [2004] EWCA Civ 18   Case No: B1 2003/2354 IN THE SUPREME COURT OF JUDICATURE COURT OF APPEAL (CIVIL DIVISION) ON APPEAL FROM Middlesborough County Court (Mr Recorder Bullock)   Royal Courts of Justice   Strand, London, WC2A 2LL   28th January...

The Court of Appeal handed down judgment in  2011] EWCA Civ 793 on 7 July 2011.  It was a welcome opportunity to consider the application of  [2001] EWCA Civ 166 in international relocation cases following criticism of the authority both at home and abroad.  What followed...

These Regulations may be cited as the International Recovery of Maintenance (Hague Convention 2007 etc.) Regulations 2012, and, subject as follows, shall come into force on the day on which the Convention enters into force in respect of the European Union, which day will be notified in the...

(Court of Appeal, Thorpe, Patten LJJ, David Richards J, 28 November 2012) The family moved to London to enable the husband to study. He had no assets of his own and the family was supported by the wife who had received a considerable inheritance after her father's death. Following the breakdown...

(Family Division, Peter Jackson J, 3 December 2012) The 7-year-old girl had been cared for primarily by the maternal grandparents in the UK when her mother returned to the USA, where she had been born. For the past 6 years the mother had no involvement with her child aside from recent video...

A new research paper commissioned by Department of Education warns that the family justice system needs to reduce delays in making decisions regarding the welfare of children in order to prevent long-term damage to their development. The paper was prepared by Rebecca Brown and Harriet Ward from...

These guidelines on the issue of children giving evidence in family proceedings, have been produced by the Family Justice Council Working Party on Children Giving Evidence, chaired by the Lord Justice Thorpe. The working party was set up following a referral from the Court of Appeal in Re W...

The reforms will make considerable changes to the legal aid system, including reversing the position under the Access to Justice Act 1999, whereby civil legal aid is available for any matter not specifically excluded. As a result, all private law children cases (subject to limited exceptions)...