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In the High Court, Poole J dealt with an application for a declaration of parentage, which the alleged father disputed.

Probably not a combination of words that has appeared before… This was an appeal from a Circuit Judge making Supervision Orders in relation to three children, aged 14, 5 and 3 1/2 years old.

The Court of Appeal looked at an adoption case in which the adopters had not been open and transparent about the true status of their relationship and situation.

This is a very strange case and a follow-up to the classic post Joe and the Juice… | suesspiciousminds N, Re (Paternity: Unregulated Sperm Donor) [2026] EWHC 878 (Fam) (21 April 2026) https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Fam/2026/878.html Mr Robert Albon,…

One of the remarkable things about family law is that no matter how long you’ve been doing the job (in my case, this is year 31) there are always new and surprising ways that cause cases to come before the family Court.

I’m not describing myself, no matter how much the Mazur case might be making me feel that way at the moment… This is a Court of Appeal decision in relation to an expert instructed in care proceedings who was an educational psychologist rather than a clini…

This is an appeal in private law proceedings following a finding of fact hearing.

This is an interesting Court of Appeal authority about where the line is between a Judge giving an indication of their preliminary thinking and a Judge pre-determining the outcome of the case before hearing all of the evidence.

The Court of Appeal have just given judgment in a case where the Court had made earlier orders saying that if the parents did not respond to threshold criteria by x date, threshold would be deemed to be met.

I’m going to begin this story by saying that I’m talking here about a case in America, in the 1920s to 1950s.