Practice area
Divorce and financial remedies, children (residence, contact, care proceedings and adoption), domestic abuse, forced marriage, surrogacy and related family matters.
The appellant is the non-resident parent of two children; the second respondent is the person with care, and the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions is the first respondent. The dispute concerns a child maintenance…
The applicant mother and the respondent father, who were never married, are British nationals, as are their two children, G, who is nearly 11, and H, who is 8½. In 2024 the parties planned a departure from the UK, applied for…
Nottingham City Council applied for and obtained an interim Anti-Social Behaviour Injunction against Lee Frazer on 29 July 2026, at a hearing held without notice to him. The council's application arose from Mr Frazer's attendance…
The subject of these care proceedings was a child born on 9 February 2026, aged five months at the date of the hearing. Birmingham City Council was the applicant local authority; the mother, DS, was the first respondent and the…
The applicant father, T, a British national, and the respondent mother, P, a Russian national, married in the Spring of 2023 after a seven-year relationship and had a son, Y, now two years old, who holds both British and Russian…
AR and BM, both women, formed a romantic relationship in or around early 2023, at a time when BM was already pregnant with X, conceived through sexual intercourse with LY and not by any form of assisted reproduction. AR was…
'C', a girl now aged 15, alleged that she had been sexually abused and raped by her mother's partner, 'SF', with whom the mother had cohabited from around 2014 until 2024. The family had an extensive history of children's…
The applicant mother and the respondent father, first cousins who married in Kenya in 2009, have five sons aged 15, 14, 11, 9 and 4, all UK citizens who also acquired Kenyan citizenship by descent. The family lived variously in…
The claimant, Julie Marie Croll, and the second and third defendants, Jacqueline Mary Cullis and Peter Dennis Thorpe, are siblings and the adult children of Arthur Dennis Thorpe, who died on 7 February 2024, and Margaret Mary…
The claimant, LVN, is a 16-year-old child with special educational needs, acting by her grandmother as litigation friend. The defendant, the London Borough of Southwark, is her local education authority and maintains an…
T is a boy born in September 2012, now aged 13½, whose father is a British national living in Hungary and whose mother is a Polish national living in England. His mother has been his primary carer for the vast majority of his…
The parties, now aged 74 (the husband) and 58 (the wife), married on 24 May 1997 and separated on or around 27 November 2023, after a marriage of some 26½ years. There is one child of the marriage, AB, aged 21 and an…
The applicant, anonymised as LAU, is a father involved in private law child arrangements proceedings in the Croydon Family Court concerning his daughter, now aged 9. He filed an application for contact on 19 January 2024. On 18…
The appellant father and the respondent mother are the parents of C, a girl aged 4 whose birth in 2022 coincided roughly with the end of the parties' relationship. In February 2023 the local authority sought an emergency…
The subject child, A, was born in 2025 and is represented through his children's guardian, B. Warrington Borough Council issued care and placement order proceedings on 11 December 2025, following a period of PLO pre-proceedings…
The appellant, referred to as the Father under the cipher ROE, is the non-resident parent of a child (ULY) for the purposes of the Child Support Act 1991, and the second respondent, the Mother (IAL), is the person with care. The…
Mr Y and his wife, Mrs Z, have six children, referred to as A to F in decreasing order of age. The London Borough of Croydon had recorded concerns about the family for some years, but took no substantive action even after A left…
The parties are the parents of a girl, G, now nearly 8, born during a relationship which lasted from 2014 until separation in 2023; they married and are now divorced. The father, an Indian national first granted leave to remain…
The appellant, Ms Shaheen Mahmood Laryea, is a childminder registered since 2021 on the Early Years Register and both parts of the Childcare Register, permitted to care for children alone at her one-bedroom flat, Flat 28 Powell…
SYP was born in April 2018 and is eight years old. She lives under shared care arrangements with her parents, SAO (her mother, who is Chinese and has had an interpreter throughout) and EZE (her father, who is named on her birth…