Practice area
Divorce and financial remedies, children (residence, contact, care proceedings and adoption), domestic abuse, forced marriage, surrogacy and related family matters.
The husband, aged 46, and the wife, aged 43, married on 16 August 2008 after two years' cohabitation and have two sons. They separated in September 2016 at the wife's request. After negotiations lasting a year, they entered into…
The applicant father applied for contact with his two children, X, a 12-year-old boy, and Y, a 9-year-old girl. The mother was the first respondent and the children, acting by their Children's Guardian, the second respondents…
The applicant mother and the respondent father were parties to financial proceedings in the Family Court at Kingston upon Thames concerning provision for their child. The mother had been evicted from her original home with the…
The applicant father, who lives in Italy, and the respondent mother, who has lived in England for many years, are both of Albanian heritage and were in a relationship for seven years, though never married. Their two children, XR…
C is a 14 year old boy who, in February 2022 aged 13, fell ill shortly after recovering from Covid 19. He developed a rash, was admitted to his local hospital on 27 February and was given a working diagnosis of Steven-Johnson…
The parents were in a relationship between 2010 and 2016 and separated when their sons B, now twelve, and C, now nine, were five and three. Mr G is not C's biological father but has raised him as his own since birth. The boys…
Z, a teenage girl, had been groomed and sexually exploited and was made the subject of a final care order in 2018 on a care plan of long-term foster care, her parents accepting that the threshold criteria under s.31(2) of the…
CS is a young woman with two children who, until shortly before Christmas, was in a relationship with the father of her younger child, a relationship said to have become characterised by domestic violence. In early December 2015…
The appellant, Adebayo Abdul, is a Nigerian national aged 41 who has been continuously resident in the United Kingdom since he was 16. He has two British citizen daughters, aged 13 and 11. He was convicted of a series of fraud…
The child, G, was born in June 2002 and was 12 at the time of the appeal. Her mother (M) is Brazilian and her father (F) British; the family lived in England, where G and her younger brother J were brought up. The parents'…
The parties were the unmarried parents of a 17-year-old boy referred to as James. A consent order made on 7 February 2005 under Schedule 1 of the Children Act 1989 required the father to pay a lump sum of £40,000, index-linked…
The White House, a villa in Spain, was once the matrimonial home of Mr Andre David Salt and his wife, Mrs Janet Salt, though neither owned it directly: it was held by a Spanish company, Proserpina Investments, itself owned by a…
A, a man now aged 63, met B, a woman now aged 45, while working in the City of London in the autumn of 1995; both were then unmarried, A having no children and B having a daughter, X, born in 1988. They began a sexual…
M was born in January 2000 in Houston, Texas, to A and B, unmarried black African Americans then living in Chicago; A had been moved to Texas by Blessed Trinity Adoptions Inc immediately before the birth for the purpose of the…