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[2025] WLR(D) 593, [2025] 4 WLR 127, [2025] EWCA Civ 1481
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A Local Authority v YL & Anor – Find Case Law – The National Archives
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A (A child) (Abduction from Pakistan) [2025] EWHC 2637 (Fam)
NLS Team – Adelina Morku, (Luton)
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A (child) Fact Finding Hearing [2025] EWFC 219 (B)
NLS Team – Priti Shah, (London) – Care
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D (a minor) (care proceedings: placement in France: Hague 1996, Article 33) [2025] EWFC 202
D (a minor) (care proceedings: placement in France: Hague 1996, Article 33) [2025] EWFC 202 Read CaseA Local Authority v Father & Ors [2024] EWFC 424 (B) (25 June 2024)
A Local Authority v Father & Ors [2024] EWFC 424 (B) (25 June 2024) Read CaseG and B (children) (abduction: settlement: grave risk: ukraine) [2025] EWHC 795 (Fam)
NLS team – Michael Gration KC and Stephen Bartlet-Jones
XY Twins inflicted injury [2024] EWFC 413 (B)
XY Twins inflicted injury [2024] EWFC 413 (B) Read CaseLocal Authority v Mother & Ors [2024] EWFC 158 (B) (27 June 2024)
NLS Team – Kirsty Richards, – (London) – Family
S (a child) (care and placement) (2024) EWFC 211 (B)
S (a child) (care and placement) (2024) EWFC 211 (B) Read CaseE (Special Guardianship Order: Ukraine) [2024] EWHC 263 (Fam)
NLS Team – Attiah Hussain, – (London) – Care
London Borough of Newham v Emma & Ors (2024) EWFC 29
London Borough of Newham v Emma & Ors (2024) EWFC 29 Read CaseLondon Borough of Barking and Dagenham v The Father & Ors (2023) EWFC 112
London Borough of Barking and Dagenham v The Father & Ors (2023) EWFC 112 Read CaseIn J & Ors, Re (Children: Interim Removal) [2023] EWCA
We rep’d the child, the appeal was brought by the father against the Court’s decision to remove the children under an ICO, and the appeal was allowed, the children were returned – it was heard last month (October 2023)
AF v AM [2023] EWFC 153
Domestic Abuse and Private Children law proceedings.. considerations of “coercive controlling behaviour” when no findings are made by the court. Considerations of the application of the welfare checklist and PD12J.
London Borough of Ealing v Mother & Ors [2023] EWFC 201 (B) (15 November 2023)
NLS Team – Kirsty Richards (London) – Family
Prospective Adopters v London Borough of Ealing & Ors [2023] EWFC 294 (14 November 2023)
Prospective Adopters v London Borough of Ealing & Ors [2023] EWFC 294 (14 November 2023) Read CaseA Mother v A Father [2023] EWFC 105 (14 April.2023)
Represented a father in care proceedings for which PR was removed following allegations of sexual abuse proven at second FFH.
Judge wrote a letter to the Child explaining his decision which got widely spread among the legal sector as being something which ought to be done as a matter of course, such was the significance of that letter in what was very significant decision made by the court.
P, H-L (children)(mobile phone extraction) [2023]
NLS Team – Kirsty Richards, Jestina Johnson (London) – Family
We represented two children in care proceedings and this interim appeal came in between a part heard fact find hearing. Decision by Lady and Lord Justices, Black, Bean and Baker.
Case will lead to a change to FPR2010 (as recommended by Lord MacFarlane)
Case is being covered in all public law children updates nationally as a result of the guidance flowing from this Appeal
KR was published in Jordan’s Family Law Journal discussing the case and guidance in [2023] Fam Law 751-890
Re K (forced marriage: passport order ) [2020] EWCA Civ 190
Judge – Sir Andrew McFarlane P, Peter Jackson and Haddon-Cave LJJ
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