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8 decisions turning on welfare checklist.
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…
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…
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 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…