Articles categorised Family and Child Law
Case Comment: Gow v Grant [2012] UKSC 29, the Supreme Court rules on cohabitation
By Marilyn Stowe
This piece was originally posted on the Marilyn Stowe Blog and is reposted here with thanks.
I first wrote…
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Case Comment: Re S [2012] UKSC 10
By Madeleine Reardon, 1 Kings Bench Walk
Just 9 months after dealing with its last Hague Convention case, Re E [2011]…
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Case Comment: Re E [2011] UKSC 27
The Supreme Court’s decision in Re E can be seen in some ways as guiding interpretation of Article 13(b) of the Hague Convention ‘back on track’, following the decision of the ECHR last year in Neulinger and Shuruk v Switzerland [2011] 1 FLR 122….
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Case Comment: Agbaje v Akkinoye-Agbaje [2010] UKSC 13
On 10th March 2010 the Supreme Court handed down a unanimous judgment, delivered by Lord Collins, in Agbaje v Akkinoye-Agbaje ([2010] UKSC 13) the first case under Part III of the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984 ever to have been heard by t…
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Case Comment: W (children) [2010] UKSC 12
On Wednesday 3 March 2010 the Supreme Court delivered judgment in W (children) [2010] UKSC 12, one day after hearing argument and just in time for a fact-finding hearing listed this week. The issue for the Court was whether the trial Judge had been wro…
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Case Comment: S-B (Children) [2009] UKSC 17
A seven-justice Supreme Court has allowed the appeal in the case of S-B (Children) ([2009] UKSC 17), which dealt with the issue of the proper approach to fact-finding where the court is presented with a ‘pool’ of possible perpetrators, one of whom …
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Case Comment: R (on the application of A) (FC) v London Borough of Croydon and R (on the application of M) (FC) v London Borough of Lambeth [updated]
The Supreme Court has now handed down judgment in joined cases R (on the application of A) (FC) (Appellant) v London Borough of Croydon (Respondents) and R (on the application of M) (FC) (Appellant) v London Borough of Lambeth (Respondents) [2009] UKSC…
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