Tag Archives: Children
Regina -v- Sheppard; HL 1981
The section made it an offence for anyone having care of a child to wilfully neglect the child ‘in a manner likely to cause him unnecessary suffering or injury to health’.Held: The section speaks of an act or omission that … Continue reading
In Re R (Parental responsibility: IVF baby); D (A Child), Re; HL 12-May-2005
The parents had received IVF treatment together, but had separated before the child was born. The mother resisted an application by the father for a declaration of paternity.Held: The father’s appeal failed. The Act made statutory provision as to the … Continue reading
Filed under Children
Re M and another (Children) (Abduction; Rights of Custody); HL 5-Dec-2007
Three children had been brought from Zimbabwe by their mother against the wishes of the father and in breach of his rights there. The mother appealed an order for their return.Held: The mother’s appeal was allowed. The House had to … Continue reading
Filed under Children, International
G -v- G (Minors: Custody appeal); HL 2-Jan-1985
The House asked when a decision, on the facts, of a first instance court is so wrong as to allow it to be overturned on appeal.Held: The epithet ‘wrong’ is to be applied to the substance of the decision made … Continue reading
Filed under Children, Litigation Practice
Ex parte Crook; CA 1995
A criminal court trying parents for the manslaughter of one child and cruelty to three others had made an order under section 39 prohibiting the identification of the surviving children. The judge expressed the view that identifying the parents or … Continue reading
Re M and another (Children) (Abduction; Rights of Custody); HL 5-Dec-2007
Three children had been brought from Zimbabwe by their mother against the wishes of the father and in breach of his rights there. The mother appealed an order for their return.Held: The mother’s appeal was allowed. The House had to … Continue reading
Filed under Children, International
G -v- G (Minors: Custody appeal); HL 2-Jan-1985
The House asked when a decision, on the facts, of a first instance court is so wrong as to allow it to be overturned on appeal.Held: The epithet ‘wrong’ is to be applied to the substance of the decision made … Continue reading
Filed under Children, Litigation Practice
Ex parte Crook; CA 1995
A criminal court trying parents for the manslaughter of one child and cruelty to three others had made an order under section 39 prohibiting the identification of the surviving children. The judge expressed the view that identifying the parents or … Continue reading
Scott -v- Scott; HL 1912
There had been an unauthorised dissemination by the petitioner to third parties of the official shorthand writer’s notes of a nullity suit which had been heard in camera. An application was made for a committal for contempt.Held: The House equated … Continue reading
Filed under Administrative, Children, Constitutional, Contempt of Court, Media
R, Regina (on the Application of) -v- Durham Constabulary and Another; HL 17-Mar-2005
The appellant, a boy aged 15, had been warned as to admitted indecent assaults on girls. He complained that it had not been explained to him that the result would be that his name would be placed on the sex … Continue reading
Filed under Children, Human Rights, Police
