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Tara’s longest running family case (24 months) ended this week with two of the four children being returned to their mother’s care and the youngest two being placed with a maternal aunt under Special Guardianship Orders. Tara was instructed by the local…
The Second Edition of the handy guide ‘The PLO Explained’ has just been released by Chambers.
Written by members of the 9 Gough Chambers Family Team, the book is an essential text for practitioners involved in care proceedings.
The second…
Re CB (A Child) [2015] EWCA Civ 888
This case concerned a little girl, CB, who was born in April 2008. CB and her mother, LB, are both Latvian citizens although CB was born in England and has been habitually resident…
London Borough of Redbridge v SNA [2015] EWHC 2140 (Fam)
In his judgment of 21 July 2015, Mr Justice Hayden limits the application of injunctions sought for unspecific children or vulnerable adults under the High Court’s Inherent Jurisdiction.
The local…
This is a decision of Nicholas Cusworth QC sitting as a High Court Judge which contains a useful summary of the authorities relating to post-separation asset accruals.
The parties began their cohabitation in 1990, the year before H, a systems analyst by…
This was a private law case in front of magistrates where the mother was represented by counsel and the father, a Serbian whose first language was not English, was in person. The mother had concerns that the father had a personality disorder….
Tim Parker recently gave a webinar on ‘planning and case management when dealing with financial remedy cases’ and this can now be viewed online with a 20% discount.
This webinar covered the essentials of financial remedy cases. The expert speakers highlighted the…
Where a litigant in family proceedings is unrepresented because he is ineligible for legal aid, can the court direct that the cost of representation be met by H.M. Courts and Tribunals Service? No.
The question has been considered in a small number…
Temporary moves are commonplace in international families: A parent may accompany children to another country during term time whilst they attend school, or for long term medical treatment, or as in the case of AR -v- RN [2013] UKSC 60 the focus…
Tim Parker, Tara Vindis, Oliver Millington and Esther MacLachlan gave a popular seminar at the London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham entitled Wardship & Inherent Jurisdiction. Particular consideration was given to the recent “ISIS injunction cases”. The training was given in association…
