Adoption
R (on the application of Article 39) v Secretary of State for Education [2020] EWHC 2184 (Admin), [2020] All ER (D) 40 (Aug)
The claimant children’s rights charity unsuccessfully challenged the Adoption and Children (Coronavirus) Amendment Regulations 2020 (SI 2020/445) which amended a series of regulatory protections in respect of children social care services. The Administrative Court held that given the circumstances, there had not been an error of law in the consultation process. Nor had the 2020 Regulations exercised the statutory power in a way that had failed to promote the policy and objects of the statutes in question.
Divorce
S v C [2020] EWHC 2127 (Fam), [2020] All ER (D) 43 (Aug)
In the course of proceedings concerning financial provision following the parties’ divorce, the court had to decide to what extent it should exercise its jurisdiction under s 23 of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 so as to impose conditions on the release to the parties of a frozen fund of some £3.74m. The provenance of that fund was the settlement/compromise of a negligence claim launched
