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Divorce and financial remedies, children (residence, contact, care proceedings and adoption), domestic abuse, forced marriage, surrogacy and related family matters.
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The proceedings concern private law applications about the arrangements for two children, who have been the subject of ongoing litigation since January 2025. The father acted in person; the mother was represented by Ms Harrison…
The proceedings concerned the welfare of five children: J, a girl aged 15; K, a boy almost 14; L, a girl aged 12; M, a girl aged 9; and N, a girl aged 5. The parents had made cross-applications in January and March 2025, which…
C is a 12 year old British girl whose parents, both British nationals, had lived with her in Portugal. The Portuguese child protection authority, the CPCJ, became involved following the mother's complaint of domestic abuse…
The applicant husband, Mr James Copinger-Symes, and the first respondent wife, Ms Maria-Christina Perez De La Sala, married on 24 October 1998 and separated in July 2017. Divorce proceedings began in August 2017, decree nisi was…
The applicant father, F, and the respondent mother, M, are the parents of two children, E, aged 12, and G, aged 6. Their relationship deteriorated at the end of 2024 and they separated in January 2025, though they continued to…
These were care proceedings brought by the London Borough of Barnet in respect of Z, a girl aged 10 and a half, and her older brother Y, aged 17. The family had been known to Barnet Children's Services since 2016 following…
The applicant father (F) and respondent mother (M) are both nationals of the same European Hague Convention country who made their life in the United Kingdom, where their son Q was born in April 2023. M fled the family home with…
The parties are the parents of G, a seven-year-old girl who has a congenital complete heart block, an implanted cardiac pacemaker and a school care plan overseen by a cardiologist and specialist nurse; the mother says G has…
The applicant, now 53, had been an Imam at Northampton's Central Mosque since 1996 and had no previous convictions. In November 2023 he was approached by a 16-year-old girl who asked him to conduct a Nikah ceremony with her…
J, a boy rising 15, was born in Pakistan and spent most of his childhood in the care of relatives, principally a paternal aunt, C. His parents, A and B, married with five children, moved between jurisdictions over 25 years and…
D is a ten year old boy about to begin his final year of primary school. His parents separated after conduct by the father which he subsequently admitted and for which he later pleaded guilty to a criminal offence; a…
Both parents were born and brought up in England, met in about 2005 and moved to Spain shortly afterwards, remaining there until they separated in 2023. They have two children: an older girl, A, who is not the subject of these…
SB is a girl whose parents separated in 2015. A District Judge made a shared care order in September 2015. In August 2019 the father applied to vary that order after the mother, in June 2019, restricted his time with SB following…
H, aged 85, and W, aged 52, both dual British and Russian citizens, married in Moscow on 4 August 2000 and separated in December 2024/January 2025 after a 24-year marriage; there are two adult children. W issued her divorce order…
ST, a 15-year-old girl, was placed in the care of Essex County Council in 2017. Earlier care proceedings about her and her brother ended in February 2018 with care and placement orders. The placement order was later discharged…
E was born in March 2020 to a mother who had come to the UK from another European country in 2016. Shortly after the birth, concerns raised by a health visitor led to E being removed into police protection, and the mother was…
The parties married in Pakistan on 17 February 2023 following an arranged marriage, their families living in the same village in Azad Kashmir. It was the Mother's only marriage and the Father's third; she was about twenty-nine…
The wife, MF, and the husband, NF, married in 2015 and have two children. The wife issued her divorce application on 23 July 2023 and her Form A on 2 November 2023. In his Form E the husband said he was the legal but not the…
F and M, British citizens holding Green Cards, had lived with their two sons in Florida. On 14 July 2025 the family travelled to the UK for a three-week holiday; on 26 July 2025, while in Scotland, M told F that she intended to…
Margaret Ofori-Kuma was born on 16 April 1966 and died suddenly on 9 June 2026, leaving three adult daughters, Michaela Fordjor, Karyn Ofori and Delores Ofori. Her death was unanticipated and she left no will or written funeral…