Children in UK Law

  • ZH (Tanzania) v Secretary of State for the Home Department
    • Supreme Court
    • 01 February 2011
    ... ... Monica Carss-Frisk QC ... Susan Chan ... (Instructed by Treasury Solicitors) ... Interveners (for the Appellant's children) ... Joanna Dodson QC ... Edward Nicholson ... (Instructed by Raffles Haig Solicitors) ... Heard on 9 and 10 ... ...
  • Calderbank v Calderbank
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 05 June 1975
    ... ... There are three children of the family, two boys aged 15 and 14 respectively, and one girl aged 12. All three children are at fee paying schools ... 4 The husband and wife ... ...
  • G v G (Minors: Custody Appeal)
    • House of Lords
    • 25 April 1985
    ... ... J.) affirming a decision of His Honour Judge Jalland in the Manchester County Court in which the learned judge awarded the custody of two children to their father, the respondent. I shall refer to him as "the father" and to the appellant as "the mother." The main question in the appeal is ... ...
  • Watt (or Thomas) v Thomas
    • House of Lords
    • 25 March 1947
    ... ... 6 I now turn to the evidence in the present case. The parties were married on February 27,1927, and have two children—Lornie, born in March 1928, and Maurice, born in August 1931. It is an important fact that the family home was a house at Alyth which belonged to ... ...
  • M and Another v London Borough of Newham and Others; X and Others v Bedfordshire County Council
    • House of Lords
    • 29 June 1995
    ... ... are that public authorities negligently carried out, or failed to carry out, statutory duties imposed on them for the purpose of protecting children from child abuse. In the second group (the Dorset case, the Hampshire case and the Bromley case) the plaintiffs allege that the local ... ...
  • Ghaidan v Godin-Mendoza
    • House of Lords
    • 21 June 2004
    ... ... Same sex partnerships cannot be equated with family in the traditional sense. Same sex partners are unable to have children with each other, and there is a reduced likelihood of children being a part of such a household ... 16 My difficulty with this submission ... ...
  • B (Children) (Care Proceedings: Standard of Proof) (CAFCASS intervening)
    • House of Lords
    • 11 June 2008
  • White v White
    • House of Lords
    • 26 October 2000
    ... ... 5 Martin and Pamela White were married in September 1961. She was 26 years old, he was almost 24. They had three children. Tragically, their eldest child, Katherine, was killed in the Kathmandu air crash in 1992. Philip is now 30, and Hilary is 29. The marriage broke ... ...
  • R (on the Application of MA (Pakistan) and Others) v Upper Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) and Another
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 07 July 2016
    ... ... summarised his conclusion as follows (para.58): "In my judgment, therefore, the assessment of the best interests of the children must be made on the basis that the facts are as they are in the real world. If one parent has no right to remain, but the other parent does, that is ... ...
  • B (A Child)
    • Supreme Court
    • 12 June 2013
    ... ... (a) aspects of the threshold to the making of a care order set by section 31(2) of the Children Act 1989; (b) the application to the decision whether to make a care order of the requirement under article 8 of the ... ...
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