Practice area
Divorce and financial remedies, children (residence, contact, care proceedings and adoption), domestic abuse, forced marriage, surrogacy and related family matters.
H and M are former spouses whose financial dispute following a foreign divorce is being litigated in England under Part III of the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984. The case had already produced two reported judgments…
Kent County Council brought care proceedings concerning two young boys, H aged 5 and B aged 3. Their mother, M, had fled an abusive relationship with the children's father, and by early 2025 was in a relationship with CW, who…
The applicant Father and respondent Mother were in a relationship between 2006 and May 2022 and have two children, A, aged 8, and B, aged 3, who was born shortly after the relationship ended. The children live with Mother and…
The parties are a married couple who separated in Portugal in July 2023, the family having moved there from England in 2022. Their three sons, A (11), M (9) and C (7), were habitually resident in Portugal, where the local Family…
RF, a 65-year-old man born and raised in Scotland, has two siblings living in the area where he grew up. Some 30 years ago he was involved in a road traffic accident, after which his behaviour became more volatile, although no…
Marcelle Doweck and Albert Doweck are parties to contested financial remedy proceedings instigated by Mrs Doweck. Mr Doweck, who is 88, was originally represented by Vardags, and the questionnaire he is said not to have answered…
These private law proceedings concern B, a boy born in late summer 2021, who lives in County X with his mother, her partner D and the mother's eldest child. The father lives in County Y and has represented himself since a…
The applicant husband and respondent wife, both nationals of European Country X, met in England and cohabited from November 1999, became engaged in 2002 and married in European Country X in 2004. They separated on 4 January 2024…
CW, aged 33, has a diagnosis of emotionally unstable personality disorder, cognitive deficits and epilepsy. She lived in the area of Scottish Borders Council until December 2022, latterly in supported accommodation at Z Court…
D is an eight year old boy whose mother brought him to England from a Caribbean country, referred to as country H, on 16 March 2024 without his father's knowledge or consent, shortly after the family court in country H had…
The parents met in Australia in 2020, where their son B was born in 2021. The father, an Australian citizen serving in the Australian Defence Force, has an older son from a previous relationship. The mother, a paramedic born in…
The parties, referred to as the father and the mother, met in 2017 and married in West Africa on 6 April 2018, both living in the UK by 2019. Their twins, X and B, were born on 30 October 2019, and their younger brother U was…
The applicant local authority applied for care and placement orders in respect of four children of the first respondent mother and second respondent father: [C], aged 7; [D], aged 3; [E], aged 2; and [F], aged 10 months and born…
CX is a six-year-old girl whose parents, AZ and BY, separated in 2020. In original private law proceedings a district judge found that the parents' relationship had been characterised by extreme emotional and psychological abuse…
The case concerned four children of separated parents — EG, aged 15, A, aged 13, O, aged 11, and EL, aged 10. On 2 May 2025 District Judge Parker ordered that the children be removed from the father's care to live with the mother…
The parties are the unmarried parents of two girls, A, aged 10, and D, aged six, who share parental responsibility. Earlier proceedings ended with a child arrangements order made by District Judge Woodburn on 24 July 2022, under…
The applicant wife, Sabrina Pool, sought financial remedies following a marriage that lasted from 1998 to 2018, her application being essentially for the transfer of a tenancy into her sole name. She petitioned for divorce in…
These care proceedings concerned G, a young toddler boy, in respect of whom the local authority issued an application for a care order on 29 January 2026 under the Children Act 1989. In January 2026 the father took G to hospital…
These were public law proceedings brought by Oxfordshire County Council in respect of A, the child of M and F. The local authority's concerns centred on the parents' ability to recognise and protect A from sexual, physical and…
Mustafa, born in 2010 and soon to turn 16, has Prader Willi syndrome and presents with developmental delay and additional learning needs. He moved to a specialist residential school in 2021, where he lives full-time, 52 weeks a…