Practice area
Divorce and financial remedies, children (residence, contact, care proceedings and adoption), domestic abuse, forced marriage, surrogacy and related family matters.
AA applied for recognition at common law of a step-parent adoption made in Thailand, approved in January 2013 and registered in February 2013. The child, ZZ, is now aged 16. His mother, MZZ, the first respondent, was a Thai…
The applicants, University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust and Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, applied to the Court of Protection in respect of HH, a 30 year old woman then 37 weeks pregnant with…
South Yorkshire Police applied for a Female Genital Mutilation Protection Order in respect of the two young daughters of the respondent parents, F1 and F2. The concerns originated in a disclosure that the mother had herself…
The parties began a relationship in 2012, married in 2016 and separated in February 2024, their child having been born in 2018. The father left the family home following police bail conditions imposed after a report by the…
AM was born on 14 September 2019 to YL (father) and ML (mother). The mother now lives in Latvia with the couple's three other children, and the Riga State City Municipal Orphans' and Custody Court attended the hearing and filed a…
AD is a boy of almost sixteen who is the subject of both care proceedings under Part IV of the Children Act 1989, brought by Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council, and parallel proceedings under the inherent jurisdiction…
The claimant, anonymised as FZW, and her older sister, anonymised as MSW, are Eritrean nationals. Their mother died in 2013 and their father is disabled; by 2019 the sisters were living by themselves in a refugee camp in…
The appellant father (F), born in Australia of Indian heritage and aged 56, and the respondent mother (M), born in Ethiopia, a UK citizen aged 47, married in 2014 and have two children: A, a girl aged 12, and B, a boy aged 6. The…
S, a boy born in May 2022, was made the subject of care and placement orders on 30 October 2023, aged 18 months, following a detailed judgment of HHJ McKinnell, who found that neither parent could safely care for him and that his…
CDE is a 15-year-old boy who is non-verbal, severely sight-impaired, life-limited and medically fragile. He has Lowe syndrome and requires complex medical care. He brings this claim by his litigation friend and mother, EDC. For…
P was born in 2024 with serious medical issues and, following an acute deterioration in July 2024, was diagnosed with a severe life-limiting condition requiring prolonged intensive care and continuous intravenous medication…
Ancora Children's Homes Limited operated a children's home first registered with Ofsted in October 2023 to care for children of either gender with emotional and social difficulties and learning disabilities. In late March 2026…
The applicant husband, in his early 40s and Head of Investor Relations at an investment equity finance partnership, and the respondent wife, also in her early 40s and largely a child-carer and homemaker who is now studying at a…
The applicant, H, aged 84 and a dual British and Russian citizen living at the parties' family home in Odintsovo near Moscow, brought financial remedy proceedings against W, aged 52 and also a dual British and Russian citizen who…
The appellant, Daffodils Nursery Limited, is a company whose sole director and nominated individual is Mr Ahmed. It has been registered with Ofsted as a provider of childcare on non-domestic premises since 16 June 2014, initially…
The proceedings concerned EF, a child born in November 2024, whose father, TC, a hospital doctor registered with the General Medical Council, applied for orders under the Children Act. Following a finding of fact hearing, His…
The applicant, Dr TC, a medical doctor, and the respondent, WF, met in April 2023 and began a turbulent relationship marked by periods of separation and reconciliation. Their daughter EF was born in November 2024. The parents had…
The claimant, C, is a 16 year-old boy with Down syndrome and complex special educational needs who lives with his parents and two siblings in a touring caravan based in Malvern on land owned by his late paternal grandfather. C…
P is a little girl born in England in August 2024, who holds United States, Lithuanian and British nationality. Her mother, M, is a dual Lithuanian-United States national who pursued a ballroom dancing career across the USA…
The proceedings concerned D, a boy aged three, born in March 2023. His father, Mr A, applied on 15 April 2025 for a child-arrangements order that D should live with him and spend time with his mother; his mother, Ms B, applied on…