In re G (Children: Religious upbringing) [2012] EWCA Civ 1233; [2012] WLR (D) 265
“In a case in which a marriage had irretrievably broken down, and the parents were unable to agree as to the precise religious nature of their children’s future education, care was required in looking to the welfare of the children and weighing up the relevant factors.”
WLR Daily, 4th October 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“What is happiness? If you thought this most philosophical inquiry was beyond the remit of the judicial system then you should read this case.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 11th October 2012
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“The days are gone when fathers held exclusive power over their children’s education, a judge ruled yesterday in rejecting the objections of an ultra-orthodox Jewish father to his ex-wife’s choice of schools for their children.”
Daily Telegraph, 5th October 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The Court of Appeal has ordered the the disclosure of serious allegations made against a parent by an anonymous third party in contact proceedings. In doing so, it has demonstrated the correct approach to balancing the many different human rights considerations involved.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 28th September 2012
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“Government plans to introduce a legislative presumption of shared parenting could undermine child welfare and increase the volume of litigation, according to the Law Society.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 6th September 2012
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
In re L (A Child) (Recognition of Foreign Order): [2012] EWCA Civ 1157; [2012] WLR (D) 252
“The English court would not refuse recognition of a parental agreement freely reached in a member state of the European Union unless a party seeking to challenge it showed a very high degree of procedure or principle error which led to the conclusion and ratification of the agreement in the country where the child was habitually resident at the time of the agreement. A child’s two monthly rotational residence in England lacked degree of permanence to find habitual residence in England for the English court to make a residence order.”
WLR Daily, 21st August 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“A judge has ordered that doctors can switch off a young boy’s life-support system even though his devout Christian parents pleaded for him to be kept alive in case of a miracle.”
Daily Telegraph, 13th August 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Should a 10-year-old Jewish girl be baptised against her mother’s wishes? Judge Platt handed down an empathetic judgment last week.”
The Guardian, 8th August 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Judges have to get involved in disputes on divorce, of which the current case is an exquisitely difficult example. Its facts are very simple. C was 10. Her parents and grandparents are Jewish. Her father is a Christian convert, and C wanted to be baptised. Her mother did not want this. She said father had brainwashed C, and it was premature. Mother went to court to stop any baptism proceeding until C was 16. The Court could not simply wash its hands of the case; that would encourage self-help taken by one or other parent, to the lasting resentment of the other.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 4th August 2012
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“A judge has ruled that a severely brain-damaged baby boy can be allowed to die even though his devoutly religious parents wanted him to be kept on a life-support system.”
Daily Telegraph, 31st July 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A father who was denied access to his children for three years because it upset their mother suffered a breach of his parental rights, the Court of Appeal ruled yesterday.”
Daily Telegraph, 25th July 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A father-of-four has criticised an ‘absurd’ court order that bans him from returning his children’s text messages or phone calls.”
The Independent, 17th July 2012
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Lawyers have described government plans to introduce a legal presumption of shared parenting after relationship breakdown as ‘unnecessary political posturing’ that could detract from children’s wellbeing.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 20th June 2012
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
“Extraditions to the US and Europe should go ahead, even when a suspect has children in the UK, the UK Supreme Court has ruled.”
BBC News, 20th June 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Plans to strengthen the law so children continue to see both parents if they separate have been put forward by ministers today.”
Ministry of Justice, 13th June 2012
Source: www.justice.gov.uk
“The right of both divorced fathers and mothers to see their children is to be enshrined in law for the first time as part of changes to family justice, despite warnings from the government’s independent review and lawyers that it would ‘clog the courts’.”
The Guardian, 13th June 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Alex Verdan QC of 4 Paper Buildings considers several recent important judgments covering a range of private law issues concerning children.”
Family Law Week, 23rd May 2012
Source: www.familylawweek.co.uk
“A person’s entitlement to Child Tax Credit (CTC) is a ‘possession’ for the purposes of article 1 of the First Protocol to the European Convention on Human Rights.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 17th May 2012
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“The prison authorities had acted unlawfully in restricting childcare resettlement leave to prisoners who were within two years of their release date and had been allocated to ‘open’ conditions.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 16th April 2012
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“Dr Rob George, Fellow in Law at the University of Oxford and Associate Tenant at Harcourt Chambers, discusses relocation disputes and his on-going research into how these cases are dealt with in the first instance courts of England and Wales.”
Family Law Week, 13th April 2012
Source: www.familylawweek.co.uk
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