Practice area
Divorce and financial remedies, children (residence, contact, care proceedings and adoption), domestic abuse, forced marriage, surrogacy and related family matters.
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…
The husband, aged 77, born in America and now an Irish national living mainly in Cyprus, applied for permission to bring a claim for financial relief under Part III of the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984 following the…
C is a two-year-old girl born in England in 2024 to unmarried parents who never lived together. The mother is a Polish national aged 31, lawfully resident in the United Kingdom; the father is aged 42 and a dual British and…
AR is a 25-year-old man with a moderate to severe learning disability and autistic spectrum disorder who lived for most of his life with his parents, PR and QR. Since May 2025 he has lived in a supported living placement…
The parents of IAD and BNA, two brothers of primary school age, had operated an informal shared care arrangement for around six years. BNA has considerable additional needs and attends regular medical appointments; IAD is a keen…
The London Borough of [X] applied for care and placement orders in respect of three children: A (aged 11), B (aged 8), and C (aged 4). The family had a long history of Children's Social Care involvement dating back to 2016, with…
The applicant former wife and the respondent former husband married in July 2006 and separated in August 2021; they have three daughters, aged 18, 17 and 15, who live with her. Divorce and financial remedy proceedings concluded…
The applicant father and respondent mother are the parents of three boys, [Child A] and twins [Child B] and [Child C], who live with their mother and spend time with their father. The parents also have an older daughter, [Child…
The proceedings concerned two sisters: [A], who was about to turn seventeen, and [B], aged six. Their mother is [Ms X]; [A]'s father is [Mr Y] and [B]'s father is [Mr Z], the mother's second husband. The family had been known to…
The two children at the centre of these care proceedings are brothers, both under three, referred to as 'O' and 'T'. Against a background of parental domestic abuse, drug misuse and poor mental health, 'T' was presented to…
Ashley Peters and Mary Joseph are son and mother. They fell out over the beneficial ownership of 1 Cicely Road, London SE15, legal title to which had been held jointly by Ms Joseph and Mr Peter Enulue, Mr Peters' father. After Mr…
The applicant father is a 32-year-old French national living in France; the respondent mother, also 32, has dual French and British nationality. Their daughter K was born in France on 3 April 2022 and is now 4 years and 3 months…
The applicant wife, 'HJ' ('W'), in her mid-thirties, was introduced to the respondent husband, 'QY' ('H'), now in his early forties, in around 2017. They married on 27 April 2018 and the marriage ended in 2021, by which time they…
The father, NV, applied on 2 February 2026 under the 1980 Hague Convention for the summary return to Country A of his son G, born in Country A in 2020 and now six years old. The mother, AM, a national of Country A with settled…
Slough Borough Council brought care proceedings, issued on 30 May 2025, in respect of two girls, [A] and her much younger half-sister [B], before HHJ Vincent sitting as a section 9 Deputy High Court Judge in the Family Court at…
Slough Borough Council brought care proceedings concerning two girls: [A], who was about to turn seventeen, and her half-sister [B], aged six. Following a fact-finding hearing, HHJ Vincent, sitting as a section 9 Deputy High…
The local authority applied for care and placement orders in respect of Storm, a baby girl now aged nine months, who has been accommodated in foster care under an interim care order made in late 2025 since her discharge from…