Source: http://cases.familylorefocus.com/2010_01_01_archive.html
Timestamp: 2017-09-23 12:58:19
Document Index: 527752265

Matched Legal Cases: ['EWCA ', 'EWCA ', 'EWCA ', 'application no 22933', 'UKHL ', 'EWCA ', 'EWCA ', 'EWCA ', 'EWCA ', 'EWCA ', 'application no 22933']

Family Lore Case Digest: January 2010
J v J [2009] EWHC 2654 (Fam) (21 January 2010)
Judgment in complex, big money ancillary relief proceedings including comments on preparation for trial.
M (A child) [2009] EWCA Civ 1486 (30 November 2009)
Application for permission to appeal by guardian against a decision by justices to grant an interim care order to the local authority who intended to move the child to alternative foster carers pending a final hearing. Appeal dismissed.
Appeal against a committal order for breach of an order forbidding both parties from disclosing documents filed in the proceedings. Held, the appellant was not in breach - for this and other reasons the committal order could not stand, and would be set aside.
Subjects: Children: Disclosure, Contempt
Leigh v Hudson [2009] EWCA Civ 1442 (9 December 2009)
Application for permission to appeal against finding that a ceremony in South Africa did not constitute a marriage. Application refused.
Posted by John Bolch on Monday, January 25, 2010
Imerman v Imerman (Jud) [2010] EWHC 0064 (Fam) (13 January 2010)
Supplemental judgment arising from applications concerning use of irregularly obtained confidential information in ancillary relief proceedings. This judgment concerns the forms of the relevant orders, costs, further directions and permission to appeal.
Subjects: Ancillary Relief, Ancillary Relief: Costs, Appeals
M-W (A Child), Re [2010] EWCA Civ 12 (21 January 2010)
Application by local authority for permission to appeal against dismissal of care proceedings, on the basis that the judge had failed to deal with a substantial body of professional evidence. Permission granted, appeal allowed and re-hearing directed.
Doctor A & Ors v Ward & Anor [2010] EWHC 16 (Fam) (08 January 2010)
Care proceedings - application by parents to 'disapply' s.12 Administration of Justice Act 1960 granted and applications to protect anonymity of expert witnesses, treating clinicians and social workers dismissed.
Posted by John Bolch on Thursday, January 21, 2010
FL ( A Child), R (on the application of) v London Borough Of Lambeth [2010] EWHC 49 (Admin) (19 January 2010)
Application by child for judicial review of decision of local authority to refuse to provide accommodation under s.20 Children Act. Application refused.
Application by father for permission to appeal against care and placement orders. Application refused.
Subjects: Appeals, Children: Care proceedings
Ancillary relief application by W. Application by H for the return of 7 files of documents containing information which was secretly obtained from a computer system used by him, and for other orders restraining W and her legal representatives from making any use of that information, including for the purposes of her ancillary relief application. Held, the 7 files should be delivered to H's solicitors for them to identify and remove those pages which contain privileged material, whereupon the files should be returned to W's solicitors. Further, W and her legal advisers not to make any use of the privileged material, including for the purposes of these proceedings.
Frasik v. Poland (application no 22933/02) Jaremowicz v. Poland (no 24023/03) (5 January 2010)
Refusal to allow prison inmates to marry breached the European Convention on Human Rights.
Press Release (with links to judgments).
Posted by John Bolch on Thursday, January 14, 2010
Hashem v Shayif & Anor [2009] EWHC 3462 (Fam) (22 December 2009)
In on-going proceedings, this hearing dealt, inter alia, with an injunction granted against husband's company preventing it from securing any borrowing against a property. The company applied for discharge of the injunction or, failing that, for it to be amended to permit the company to secure borrowings of up to £300,000 (from the current £177,000) against the property. The application for discharge was adjourned but the level of permitted borrowing was increased to £200,000, to tide the company the company over until the matter returns to court.
Amin & Amin v Amin & Others [2009] EWHC 3356 (Ch) (18 December 2009)
Proceedings relating to (1) property jointly owned by a family and (2) to a company carried on by members of the family. The judge considered the application of the principles relating to constructive trusts explained in Stack v Dowden [2007] UKHL 17 and subsequent cases.
Posted by John Bolch on Monday, January 11, 2010
Walsh v Singh & Anor [2009] EWHC 3219 (Ch) (15 December 2009)
The parties lived together as a couple for a number of years, latterly in a property purchased in Mr Singh's name. Miss Walsh claimed a beneficial interest in the property under a constructive trust or proprietary estoppel. Her claim was dismissed, as she had made no contribution to the purchase price and there had been no common intention giving rise to a constructive trust or estoppel.
Posted by John Bolch on Wednesday, January 06, 2010
Ancillary Relief (446)
Children: Abduction (229)
Children: Accommodation (44)
Children: Adoption (463)
Children: Care proceedings (1389)
Children: Contact (273)
Children: Hague Convention (188)
Contempt (108)
Costs (102)
Court of Protection (369)
Financial Remedies (310)
Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act (67)
Wardship (105)
M (A child) [2009] EWCA Civ 1486 (30 November 2009...
S-C (Children) [2010] EWCA Civ 21 (28 January 2010...
Leigh v Hudson [2009] EWCA Civ 1442 (9 December 20...
Imerman v Imerman (Jud) [2010] EWHC 0064 (Fam) (13...
M-W (A Child), Re [2010] EWCA Civ 12 (21 January 2...
Doctor A & Ors v Ward & Anor [2010] EWHC 16 (Fam) ...
FL ( A Child), R (on the application of) v London ...
H (A Child). Re [2010] EWCA Civ 6 (19 January 2010...
Imerman v Imerman [2009] EWHC 3486 (Fam) (11 Decem...
Frasik v. Poland (application no 22933/02) Jarem...
Hashem v Shayif & Anor [2009] EWHC 3462 (Fam) (22 ...
Amin & Amin v Amin & Others [2009] EWHC 3356 (Ch) ...
Walsh v Singh & Anor [2009] EWHC 3219 (Ch) (15 Dec...