Law reports – Page 2

  • Port of Dover
    Law Report

    Family and children

    2015-05-29T10:59:00Z

    Ex parte wardship proceedings were brought in respect of four children, all British citizens, as there were reasonable grounds for believing that the entire family had left the UK to join Islamic State in Syria.

  • Supreme Court
    Law Report

    Family

    2015-04-08T15:19:00Z

    The Supreme Court held that none of the exceptions to the general approach applicable to awards of costs in children’s cases as set out in Re T (Children) [2012] applied in the present case.

  • Mr Justice Mostyn
    Law Report

    Costs (family)

    2014-11-20T12:19:00Z

    In financial proceedings the Family Division imposed a costs penalty on the husband. The judge commented on the scale of the costs incurred by the parties, which he described as ‘totally disproportionate’.

  • Birmingham UK
    Law Report

    Parental order

    2014-10-16T11:40:00Z

    The Family Division held that the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008 did not have the effect of preventing the court from making a parental order.

  • Will
    Law Report

    Costs

    2014-09-26T10:55:00Z

    A full report of the judgment in the costs case related to Marley v Rawlings, in which parents had each signed the wrong mirror will.

  • Family outline
    Law Report

    Family

    2014-08-27T11:23:00Z

    In this adoption application, the parent and step-parent of a child applied to the court to adopt a mother’s two children (by different fathers).  The trial judge refused application so the father appealed.

  • Law Report

    Probate

    2014-01-28T14:26:00Z

    The judgment in the Marley v Rawlings wills mix-up appeal. General guidance was also provided in the matter of validity of wills.

  • Law Report

    Medical treatment

    2013-08-27T14:31:00Z

    Adult patient – Consent to treatment – Patient lacking capacity – Adult male, DE, having learning difficulties

  • Law Report

    Human rights

    2013-08-19T17:08:00Z

    Child – Court proceedings in relation to child – Proceedings in private

  • Law Report

    Marriage

    2013-08-19T17:04:00Z

    Validity – Declaration – Respondent lacking capacity having married abroad in arranged marriage ceremony