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11 decisions turning on fact-finding hearing.
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…
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 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…
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…
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 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…
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…
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…