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Nigel Cholerton reported in QQ v CC & Ors [2022] EWHC 2910 (Fam)
Facts
This was an application by QQ for an adoption order in respect of his stepdaughter ‘Esmarelda’ who was 18 years and 6 months at the time of the hearing. The application was made before her 18th birthday.
This adoption application was supported by Esmarelda’s mother, by Esmarelda herself, by the children’s guardian and by the relevant Local Authority, who were represented by Nigel Cholerton of No.18 Chambers.
Esmarelda’s parents were nationals of a European country where Esmarelda was born. Her parents divorced...
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Mr Justice Mostyn: amendments to standard orders
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Civil Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2021
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Amendments to Family Procedure Rules
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Thursday 25th May 2023
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Wednesday 24th May 2023
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.S. v. GREECE - 19165/20 (Judgment : Article 8 - Right to respect for private and family life : Third Section) [2023] ECHR 427
Tuesday 23rd May 2023
Art 8 • Positive obligations • Family life • Domestic authorities’ failure to take all necessary measures to enforce the applicant’s right to have contact and to establish a relationship with his daughters • No real follow-up on orders for counselling, psychiatric evaluations and social welfare reports. Full report: Bailii.
I.S. v. GREECE - 19165/20 (Judgment : Article 8 - Right to respect for private and family life : Third Section) [2023] ECHR 427
Tuesday 23rd May 2023
Art 8 • Positive obligations • Family life • Domestic authorities’ failure to take all necessary measures to enforce the applicant’s right to have contact and to establish a relationship with his daughters • No real follow-up on orders for counselling, psychiatric evaluations and social welfare reports. Full report: Bailii.
Maryam Allami v Ali Fakher [2023] EWCA Civ 532
Friday 19th May 2023
Appeal by father against 6 month committal order imposed for contempt for breach of a series of orders made in proceedings concerning his two children. Appeal dismissed. Full report: National Archives.
Bogolyubova v Bogolyubov & Anor [2023] EWCA Civ 547
Thursday 18th May 2023
Appeal against refusal to approve consent order pending the resolution of the third party proceedings, which could result in the husband losing all of his assets. Appeal dismissed. Full report: Bailii.
C v M & Anor [2023] EWHC 1182 (Fam)
Thursday 18th May 2023
Application by father for summary return of children aged 12 and 5 to Mauritius. No return ordered, in light of older child's objections and as Art 13(b) defence made out. Full report: National Archives.
AB v Worcestershire County Council & Anor [2023]
Wednesday 17th May 2023
Appeal concerning the circumstances in which a local authority may be held liable for a breach of the rights of a child under Article 3, when the child is said to have been subject to neglect or ill-treatment by a parent and the authority did not take steps to remove the child from the care of the parent. Full report: Bailii.
A v B (private law final hearing – application for non-molestation order) [2023] EWFC 74
Thursday 11th May 2023
Final hearing of child arrangements proceedings, in which the mother had made allegations of coercive control against the father and the father sought a non-molestation order to stop her making 'false allegations' against him. Full report: National Archives.
Manchester City Council v Maryan Yusef & Ors. [2023] EWHC 1248 (Fam)
Thursday 11th May 2023
Application by local authority for committal of father for contempt for breach of orders relating to the return of his children, believed to be in Somalia. Full report: National Archives.
A Local Authority v A Mother & Ors [2023] EWFC 77
Wednesday 10th May 2023
Judgment of DJ in final hearing of care and placement proceedings in relation to 3 year-old boy. Full report: Bailii.
S v F & Anor [2023] EWHC 597 (Fam)
Tuesday 9th May 2023
Application by father, who lives in Pakistan, for contact with child, who lives with mother in this jurisdiction. Full report: National Archives.
RL v NL [2023] EWFC 75
Tuesday 9th May 2023
Application by husband to set aside a financial remedy order made in 1995, which provided for the transfer of the former matrimonial home from the husband to the wife, the transfer never having been executed. Application struck out. Full report: National Archives.
T (Fact-Finding: Second Appeal) [2023] EWCA Civ 475
Friday 5th May 2023
Second appeal by LA from decision by a circuit judge allowing an appeal against findings made by a deputy district judge in care proceedings involving four children. Appeal allowed. Full report: Bailii.
EBK v DLO [2023] EWHC 1074 (Fam)
Friday 5th May 2023
Judgment on reconstituted application by the claimant for permission to bring contempt proceedings against the defendant, his former partner and mother of his child, for breach of s.12 AJA by showing documents to officers of the West Yorkshire Police which derived from ongoing s.8 proceedings. Full report: National Archives.
BOGDANOV v. UKRAINE - 27380/20 (Judgment : Article 8 - Right to respect for private and family life : Fifth Section Committee) [2023] ECHR 378
Thursday 4th May 2023
Application by father complaining of violation of Article 8 on account of unjustified refusal of the police to disclose the address where his minor son was living with his mother, although he also exercised parental authority. Held, there had been a violation of Art 8. Full report: Bailii.
BAHAROV v. UKRAINE - 28982/19 (Judgment : Article 8 - Right to respect for private and family life : Fifth Section Committee) [2023] ECHR 376
Thursday 4th May 2023
Application by father complaining of a violation of Articles 6 and 8 due to the excessive length of proceedings in which the applicant had sought the return of his child from Ukraine, where he had been living since July 2016 after having been taken there by his mother without his consent, to the USA, the country of his habitual residence. Held, there had been a violation of Art 8. Full report: Bailii.
LYAKH v. UKRAINE - 53099/19 (Judgment : Article 8 - Right to respect for private and family life : Fifth Section Committee) [2023] ECHR 377
Thursday 4th May 2023
Application by father complaining of violation of Articles 6 and 8 due to failure of the Ukrainian authorities to promptly examine and allow his application for the return of his two sons to Israel, where they had lived until December 2013, from Ukraine, where they had been living since then. Held, there had been a violation of Art 8. Full report: Bailii.
The London Borough of Havering v A Mother & Others [2023] EWFC 65
Wednesday 3rd May 2023
Fact-finding in care proceedings to determine allegations of non-accidental injury to a young baby. Not found that child’s injuries were caused non-accidentally by either of his parents. Full report: National Archives.
Re C (Adoption – Procedural Irregularities) [2023] EWFC 70
Wednesday 26th April 2023
Adoption application by foster carers made following care and placement orders, but as a 'private' application. Procedural irregularities, compounded by the fact that the prospective adopters do not live in the area of the Local Authority that obtained the care and placement orders. Full report: National Archives.
In the matter of Re H (A Child: s. 38(6) Assessment) [2023] EWHC 1083 (Fam)
Tuesday 25th April 2023
Care proceedings. Application by mother for direction that child join parents in a residential placement for adults with drug and alcohol dependency, for the family to be assessed. Full report: National Archives.
Re E and H (Care Proceedings – Alleged FII – Costs) [2023] EWFC 69
Friday 14th April 2023
Care proceedings, issued following concerns that the mother had fabricated or induced illness in the children. No such findings made. Application for costs by parents. Full report: National Archives.
Collins Chikeluba v Valerie Chikeluba [2023] EWHC 1096 (Fam)
Thursday 6th April 2023
Application by father for permission to appeal order making financial provision for the respondent and the younger child of the family, within the context of a Part III application brought pursuant to the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984 following divorce proceedings in Nigeria. Permission refused. Full report: National Archives.
DR v UG [2023] EWFC 68
Wednesday 5th April 2023
Final hearing of wife's financial remedies application. Husband claimed special contribution and post-separation endeavour. Neither made out, and assets of £284m divided equally. Full report: National Archives.
S, Re (CA 1989, S 91(14)) [2023] EWHC 1161 (Fam)
Thursday 16th March 2023
Appeal by father against refusal of leave to make contact application, a s.91(14) order having been in force. Appeal allowed. Full report: Bailii.
S, Re (CA 1989, S 91(14)) [2023] EWHC 1161 (Fam)
Thursday 16th March 2023
Appeal by father against refusal of leave to make contact application, a s.91(14) order having been in force. Appeal allowed. Full report: Bailii.
AR v BR (Re Divorce, Dissolution and Separation Act 2020 and Domicile and Matrimonial Proceedings Act 1973) [2023] EWFC 76
Monday 13th March 2023
Hearing to determine jurisdiction, where W issued divorce proceedings in England and H subsequently issued proceedings in Dubai. Full report: Bailii.
CG v SG [2023] EWHC 942 (Fam)
Monday 13th March 2023
Final hearing of wife's financial remedies application, issues including valuation of assets, matrimonial property, costs, and confidentiality. Full report: National Archives.
R v P [2023] EWHC 914 (Fam)
Tuesday 7th March 2023
Fact-finding in private law proceedings concerning mother's allegations that children and mother were stranded in Iraq by the father. Full report: Bailii.
W (A Child), Re [2023] EWFC 78
Thursday 9th February 2023
Judgment in care and placement proceedings in relation to young child. Judicial comment on various matters, including police response to serious assault on mother by father. Full report: Bailii.
C & Anor v D & Ors [2023] EWFC 10
Friday 20th January 2023
Adoption application, made by couple ten days before child turned 18. Full report: National Archives.
Steven Lord Lloyd-Bagrationi & Anor v The estate of Stephen Henry Lloyd (deceased) & Anor [2023] EWFC 3
Tuesday 3rd January 2023
Application for declaration of parentage by siblings living in the Republic of Georgia, in relation to a man who died in 1971. Held that there was no basis upon which the court could accept jurisdiction to hear the application. Full report: National Archives.
Rose v Rose & Ors [2022] EWFC 192
Friday 25th November 2022
Final hearing of wife's financial remedies application, in case involving flagrant litigation misconduct and breaches of the duty of full and frank disclosure by husband. Full report: Bailii.
Rose v Rose & Ors [2022] EWFC 192
Friday 25th November 2022
Final hearing of wife's financial remedies application, in case involving flagrant litigation misconduct and breaches of the duty of full and frank disclosure by husband. Full report: Bailii.
Y & Anor [2022] EWFC 191 (15 August 2022)
Monday 15th August 2022
Fact-finding in care proceedings concerning 2 children, primarily related to the mother's response to the younger child's complex health needs. Full report: Bailii. See also final hearing judgment, here.
Koukash v Koukash [2022] EWHC 1001 (Fam)
Monday 11th April 2022
Appeal by husband from part of lump sum order, on basis that judge relied upon without prejudice document as proof that husband had that sum available to pay to the wife. Appeal allowed. Full report: Bailii.