Practice area
Divorce and financial remedies, children (residence, contact, care proceedings and adoption), domestic abuse, forced marriage, surrogacy and related family matters.
The father, an Indian national with a United States Green Card, lives and works in Texas; the mother is a British national and a qualified doctor. The parties met through a dating app in 2023, underwent a Nikah in the UK and…
C, a girl aged approximately 18 months, was the subject of care proceedings brought by a local authority in the Family Court at Chester. In a fact-finding judgment delivered on 29 January 2026 ([2026] EWFC 33 (B)), Her Honour…
AC, a 20-year-old woman with a moderate learning disability, a genetic microduplication condition, impaired mobility and some visual impairment, travelled to Pakistan with her mother CA, her maternal grandmother BC and a family…
Alfie, a boy aged between 18 and 21 months at the material time and now aged three, sustained a range of injuries — including a skull fracture, a fractured right radius and four rib fractures — while living with his mother and…
The London Borough of Harrow brought public law proceedings in the Family Court concerning child A. The proceedings, begun in the Family Court, were transferred by order of MacDonald J to be heard by a High Court Judge sitting in…
The parties married in April 2013 and divorce proceedings between Meerna Ali Ghuloom Faraj ("the wife") and Sohail Sultan Ahmad ("the husband") began in October 2020. The husband is the majority shareholder, a director and chief…
The applicant mother, MC, and the respondent father, FC, are both Swedish nationals and the parents of C, a nine-year-old girl born in Sweden in mid-2017. The parents separated before C's birth, and C lived in Sweden with MC…
The case concerns a girl, D, aged 7, whose parents separated in February 2024. In July 2024 the mother moved out of the former family home to a town some 70 miles away, later moving to a property about 50 miles away where she now…
The appellant mother had two children: S, a boy of 14, whose father (F1) she separated from in 2012, and C, a girl of 6, whose father (F2) she married in 2018 and separated from in June/July 2025. The family had always lived in…
LM, aged 3, is the daughter of two Sudanese parents who were brought up and worked in the UAE, where they married in 2021. LM was born in the USA in Summer 2022 and holds US citizenship; the family returned to the UAE shortly…
S, a boy born in May 2022, was made the subject of an interim care order that month and lived with his mother in a residential parenting assessment for his first four to five months; that assessment concluded in September 2022…
The parties are the parents of five children: J, a girl aged 15, K, a boy aged 13, L, a girl aged 11, M, a girl aged 8, and N, a girl aged 5. They met in 2009 and married shortly thereafter; since separation the girls have lived…
The mother and Mr D married in 2014 and had two daughters, A (born 2016) and B (born 2018); the marriage broke down and they separated by late 2019, private law proceedings concluding in June 2022 with a shared care arrangement…
P, a little girl aged 2 years and 1 month, collapsed at the family home on 30 November 2023 while alone with her mother. Paramedics, summoned by a neighbour's 999 call, found her in cardiac arrest; she was intubated and taken to…
The applicant, Dr TC, is the father of EF, a girl born in November 2024 and aged one at the date of judgment; the respondent, WF, is her mother. The parents met in April 2023 and had a turbulent, 'on/off' relationship while the…
The applicant father sought a child arrangements order in respect of his son, born in about December 2018, who was 6½ at the date of this judgment. The parents were in a relationship between 2017 and the end of 2019, living…
The applicant, Mrs Jolanta Cemke, aged 52 and suffering from back problems, anxiety and depression, and the respondent, Mr Krzysztof Cemke, aged 50 and in good health, cohabited and then married in 2000, separated in May 2010 and…
These were private law proceedings in the Central Family Court concerning two children, AXQ, a teenage boy, and his younger sister BXQ. The father, X, and the mother, Q, were never married but lived together from September 2003…
The parties, referred to as LE ("the wife") and EL ("the husband"), were engaged in financial remedy proceedings in the Family Court at Birmingham arising out of their marriage, the wife having applied for financial relief under…
The applicant wife, LE, and the respondent husband, EL, began living together in late 1995 or 1996 and married in May 1997. There are two children of the family, both now adult and living with their father. The wife put the…