Baby’s organs ‘were kept for 15 years’, says mum – BBC News
‘The mother of a baby who died from cot death in 1998 has said his organs were kept for 15 years without her consent.’
BBC News, 21st January 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
In re E (A Child) [2014] EWHC 6 (Fam); [2014] WLR (D) 10
‘In any care or other public law case with a European dimension good practice would now require the court to set out explicitly the basis upon which it had either accepted or rejected jurisdiction and to identify the precise basis upon which it had proceeded. Furthermore, in cases involving foreign nationals there had to be transparency and openness as between the English family courts and the consular and other authorities of the relevant foreign state.’
WLR Daily, 14th January 2014
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
‘Marc Willers analyses the impact of a High Court ruling which gave an important judgment on the provision of care for nomadic Gypsy and Traveller children.’
Halsbury’s Law Exchange, 17th January 2014
Source: www.halsburyslawexchange.com
In the matter of LC (Children)In the matter of LC (Children) (No 2) [2014] UKSC 1
Supreme Court, 15th January 2014
‘Two men and three teenage boys have been found guilty of a series of rapes and sexual assaults on young girls.
Zdeno Mirga, 18, Hassan Abdulla, 33, and three boys were convicted at the Old Bailey. The Crown Prosecution Service said it was one of the “worst cases” of child sex abuse it had seen.’
BBC News, 15th January 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A senior family judge says he cannot stop the foreign media from publishing the story of a Slovakian mother whose son has been placed into care.’
BBC News, 14th January 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Senior officer tells MPs that practice of holding children overnight before court appearance is big concern for police.’
The Guardian, 13th January 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘A man who turned his Devon home into a shop selling illegal cigarettes to school children has been spared a jail sentence.’
BBC News, 9th January 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Jessica Craigs, senior solicitor and David Salter, Joint Head of Family Law at Mills & Reeve LLP analyse the financial remedies and divorce news and cases published in December.’
Family Law Week, 2nd January 2014
Source: www.familylawweek.co.uk
‘Trafficking victims who are forced into crime are being let down by the UK authorities, who are failing to stop them being prosecuted, a new report warns.’
The Guardian, 20th December 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘JXMX (A Child) v Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust [2013] EWHC 3956 (QB). In Part 1 on this subject, I discussed medical confidentiality and/or legal restrictions designed to protect the privacy of a mother and child. This case raises the question in a slightly different guise, namely whether the court should make an order that the claimant be identified by letters of the alphabet, and whether there should be other derogations from open justice in the guise of an anonymity order, in a claim for personal injuries by a child or protected party which comes before the court for the approval of a settlement.’
UK Human Rights Blog, 19th December 2013
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
AA (Somalia) v Entry Clearance Officer [2013] UKSC 81; [2013] WLR (D) 499
‘Paragraph 352D of the Statement of Changes in Immigration Rules (1994) (HC 394), as amended and inserted, which provided for the grant of leave to enter to the “child of a parent” who had been admitted to the United Kingdom as a refugee, did not extend to a child for whom a family member had taken responsibility under the Islamic procedure of “kafala” and whose “adoption” did not fall within the meaning of paragraphs 6 and 309A of the Rules.’
WLR Daily, 18th December 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
‘Alex Verdan QC of 4 Paper Buildings considers a wide range of children private law issues which have recently come before the courts.’
Family Law Week, 18th December 2013
Source: www.familylawweek.co.uk
‘A man who murdered his 84-year-old grandmother by stabbing her 50 times in her bed and then attempted to kill a nine-year-old boy has been told he must serve minimum of 24 years in prison.’
The Guardian, 18th December 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘A senior High Court judge has been disciplined for misconduct after speaking out over his support for traditional marriage.’
Daily Telegraph, 17th December 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘A High Court judge has been disciplined for voicing his views on marriage through national newspapers.’
BBC News, 17th December 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘BT has announced the launch of a new internet filter designed to protect children online.’
BBC News, 16th December 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Claimants who had unsuccessfully sought asylum and were granted at the age of 16½ discretionary leave to remain until they reached the age of 17½ had an effective remedy in judicial review to challenge the initial rejection of their asylum claims.’
WLR Daily, 12th December 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
‘April Jones’ killer Mark Bridger is to appeal against his whole-life sentence.’
BBC News, 16th December 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Sally Gore, barrister of 14 Gray’s Inn Square, in the first of a series of updates for children lawyers and professionals, considers recent developments affecting the decision-making and procedures of local authority children’s services.’
Family Law Week, 11th December 2013
Source: www.familylawweek.co.uk