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- Average time for Decree Absolute now 56 weeks Up 7 weeks on same quarter last year News, 13/12/2018, free
- Mr Justice McDonald appointed Northern Circuit Family Division Liaison Judge Takes up position from 1st February 2019. News, 12/12/2018, free
- DA & JA (Children : non-Hague summary return) [2018] EWHC 3429 (Fam) Father's application for children to be made wards of court and for summary return of them to Nigeria. Application successful as the judge found that their welfare would be better served by determination in Nigeria. Judgment, 12/12/2018, free
- President issues update to FGM standard orders Corrects an error relating to powers of arrest. News, 12/12/2018, free
- David (A Child : appeal) [2018] EWFC B76 Father was appealing against 2 decisions: an order that a fact-finding hearing should be listed to deal with alleged domestic abuse and a refusal by the judge to make an order for interim contact while awaiting the fact-finding hearing. The judge in this case provides helpful guidance as to what Practice Direction 12J does, and doesn't, mean. Appeal dismissed on both grounds, although the judge did endorse the father's dismay at the length of time that he will have to await the determination of these issues. Judgment, 10/12/2018, free
- 1980 Hague Convention in force for Cuba Came into force 1 December News, 10/12/2018, free
- President issues guidance on anonymisation of judgments involving children and sexual abuse Guidance endorses that prepared by Dr Julia Brophy in a 2016 report jointly funded by the Nuffield Foundation and the Association of Lawyers for Children News, 10/12/2018, free
- G (Declaration of Parentage: Removal of Person Identified as Mother from Birth Certificate) (No 1) [2018] EWHC 3379 (Fam) Application by biological father of the child for a declaration of parentage under Section 55A of the Family Law Act 1986 after the psychological mother (who had no genetic or gestational connection with the child) unlawfully removed the child to Bulgaria. The application was successful. Judgment, 10/12/2018, free
- G (Declaration of Parentage: Removal of Person Identified as Mother from Birth Certificate) (No 2) [2018] EWHC 3361 (Fam) In this wrongful removal case, a declaration was made that the psychological mother (who had no genetic or gestational connection with the child) was not the birth mother and should be removed from the child's birth certificate. Judgment, 10/12/2018, free
- Donaghy v DWP [2018] EWFC B73 CSA liability order was set aside. Judgment, 05/12/2018, free
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