Abduction
Re C (children) (abduction: physical or psychological harm) [2018] EWCA Civ 2834, [2019] All ER (D) 02 (Jan)
The appellant father was successful in his appeal against the judge’s decision to dismiss his application for the return of his two children to South Africa, pursuant to the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction 1980. The Court of Appeal, Civil Division, in allowing the appeal, held that the evidence had not supported the judge’s conclusions on which he had based his determination that Art 13(b) had been established, and the judge had failed to analyse the nature and degree of any risk based on the situation, as it would be for the children, in the future.
Child
Re A and B (children) [2018] EWHC 3491 (Fam), [2019] All ER (D) 01 (Jan)
The balance came down clearly and decisively against granting the applicant journalist permission to publish information about care proceedings brought by the respondent local authority in relation to two children. The Family Division also held that an injunction sought by the local authority preventing the journalist publishing or broadcasting
