Law reports

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    Family proceedings: Jurisdiction

    2021-09-08T11:16:00Z

    Court allows father’s appeal and sets aside order that proceedings concerning parties’ children were subject to Hague Child Protection Convention 1996.

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    Children and young persons: Detention

    2021-07-16T08:21:00Z

    Removal from association.

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    Social security: Universal credit

    2021-02-02T15:37:00Z

    Judicial review claim, alleging unlawful discrimination concerning mechanism for payment of childcare costs element of universal credit regime.

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    Family proceedings: Financial relief and jurisdiction

    2020-10-21T14:41:00Z

    Adult son’s application for financial relief from married and cohabiting parents.

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    Inheritance tax: Exemptions and relief

    2020-08-24T11:11:00Z

    Transfer of funds from pension plan was not a transfer of value, Supreme Court holds, reversing a Court of Appeal decision on inheritance tax.

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    Family proceedings: Evidence

    2020-05-27T10:19:00Z

    Court provides guidance on correct approach to identification of perpetrator as result of alleged ill-treatment from pool of perpetrators.

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    Orders in family proceedings: appeals

    2019-08-19T10:40:00Z

    Mother’s appeal against findings of fact made against her in care proceedings, made on basis of fresh evidence suggesting her account of events had been plausible, was dismissed.

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    Wrongful removal or retention of a child

    2019-01-31T11:08:00Z

    Court allows father’s application for his child to be returned from England to Hungary.

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    Damages for breach of contract

    2019-01-04T11:50:00Z

    Father loses damages claim appeal after an IVF clinic implanted an embryo into his former partner without his consent. 

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    Law Report

    23 July 2018

    2018-07-24T13:17:00Z

    This week’s starred law reports include a landmark ‘meal ticket’ divorce ruling in Mills v Mills, statutory powers of the local authority in a child family case, baggage search by customs and a company administration.

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    Law Report

    2 July 2018

    2018-07-02T14:04:00Z

    This week’s starred law reports include the landmark civil partnership case, parenthood in assisted reproduction, pension equality and gender description on a passport.

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    Law Report

    26 February 2018

    2018-02-27T12:03:00Z

    This week’s starred Law Reports - including two landmark human rights decisions in the Supreme Court.

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    Family

    2018-02-15T13:31:00Z

    Proceedings related to seven children for whom a final care order had been made in respect of each in favour of the same local authority. Some of the children were in foster care and others in specialist placements. All were subject to certain restrictions on their movement or liberty.

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    Family

    2018-02-05T15:01:00Z

    The third respondent, presently aged 11 months, suffered acute brain injury following severe hypoxia during labour and delivery. He was admitted to the paediatric intensive care ward of the applicant hospital. The hospital applied for declarations that the provision of life-sustaining treatment was no longer in his best interests. The ...

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    Family

    2018-01-16T11:05:00Z

    A transgender father’s appeal against a refusal for direct contact with his five children who belonged to the Charedi Jewish community allowed and remitted for reconsideration.

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    Council vicariously liable for abuse committed by foster parents

    2017-10-26T00:13:00Z

    Lawyers will need to pay close attention to local authority contracts with independent fostering agencies.

  • IVF treatment
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    Damages for breach of contract

    2017-10-09T10:28:00Z

    Father loses damages claim after former partner faked consent for baby to receive IVF treatment.

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    Equal rights

    2017-07-25T09:32:00Z

    Supreme Court declared that the male appellant’s husband was entitled to a spouse’s pension calculated on the basis of all the years of the appellant’s service with the respondent.

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    Divorce

    2017-06-19T16:02:00Z

    In Sharp v Sharp, the Court of Appeal held that held that the wife was correct to contend that the combination of potentially relevant factors was sufficient to justify a departure from the equal sharing principle.

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    Family

    2015-07-02T11:10:00Z

    A child had been made the subject of non-molestation injunctions, which extended to her mother, while she was a ward of court. As the child approached her 18th birthday, the mother applied to court for an extension of the injunction to extend indefinitely beyond the conclusion of the wardship proceedings.