European Union
Friends of the Irish Environment Ltd v Commissioner for Environmental Information C-470/19, [2021] All ER (D) 82 (Apr)
Article 2, point 2, of (EC) Directive 2003/4 should be interpreted as meaning that it did not govern access to environmental information contained in court files, where neither the courts nor the bodies or institutions under their control, which thus had close links with those courts, constituted ‘public authorities’ within the meaning of that provision and therefore did not fall within the scope of that directive. The Court of Justice of the European Union (First Chamber) so held in proceedings concerning access to the file of the court proceedings in a closed case.
Family proceedings
Re C (a child) [2021] EWFC 32, [2021] All ER (D) 81 (Apr)
In finding that it did have jurisdiction to hear an application brought by a mother against the father under Sch 1 to the Children Act 1989 in relation to their child, the Family Court found that despite the father’s proceedings in Monaco: (i) the court had jurisdiction to hear the mother’s claim for maintenance,
