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Obsessive mother fails in appeal against order barring court action
A mother who conducted an obsessive campaign against the father of her six year-old daughter has failed in an appeal against an order barring her from other court action for two whole years. A medical doctor from Hungary, with three children from earlier relationships, she met the father met in 2013. In 2015 a daughter, referred to in the Court... more >
Visits by judges ‘need clearer guidelines’
Britain’s most senior family law judge has called for clearer guidance on personal visits by judges to the subjects of hearings. Sir Andrew McFarlane is President of the Family Division of the High Court. Granting an appeal brought by the children of a women with Covid-19 complications, he said there was a “pressing need for workable guidance” on the “developing... more >
Syrian husband fails in bid to have Muslim divorce recognised
A former resident of Bristol has failed to persuade the family courts that a traditional Muslim divorce was valid under English law. He and his wife were married in the Syrian town of Aleppo in 2000. They later moved to England, before returning to Syria in 2010. By this point the couple had two children. Not long afterwards, the husband... more >
Charities stress importance of privacy rights for children
Children should have a right to online privacy equal to that of adults, according to a legal charity. The Coram Children’s Legal Centre campaigns to protect the legal and social rights of minors and young people. Earlier in the year the organisation joined forces with disability charity Inclusion London and campaign group Liberty to intervene in a legal case against... more >
Covid does not invalidate divorce settlements, Judge rules
The High Court has rejected a claim that the Covid-19 pandemic should invalidate a divorce settlement agreed in 2019. In BT v CU, the husband owned a successful business providing school meals. On October 10 that year, a four-day hearing in the family courts reached its conclusion with an order that the husband make a series of lump payments to... more >
Surrogacy surges across England and Wales
The number of parental orders issued by the family courts has increased by almost 400 per cent in a decade, according to a recently published report Parental orders are issued by the family courts in order to transfer the status of parenthood from the surrogate mother of a child to the intended parents or parent. In 2011, 117 such orders... more >