Family Law in UK Law

  • Re O (an Infant)
    • Court of Appeal
    • 31 January 1964
    ... ... 3 What is to happen If he were granted custody? He says that he would get one of his sisters, a responsible woman with a family of her own, to have the child until he could obtain a house, probably in the country, and obtain a housekeeper to look after him those were the ... ...
  • Re Citro (Domenico) (a Bankrupt); Re Citro (Carmine) (a Bankrupt)
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 23 May 1990
    ... ... two wives to their matrimonial homes in the event of a breakdown of their marriages, I think that it would be accepted that, in so far as the Family Division did not order the interest of the husband to be transferred to the wife, it would be unlikely to make an order for the sale of the house to ... ...
  • Ladd v Marshall
    • Court of Appeal
    • 29 November 1954
    ... ... She says he would almost certainly have resorted to physical violence and. that she was in fear not only of him but other members of the family and it was for that reason that she did not tell the truth. There was an affidavit by a notice sergeant as to another interview and by the solicitor, ... ...
  • Calderbank v Calderbank
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 05 June 1975
    ... ... Lord Justice Scarman ... Sir Gordon Willmer In The Supreme Court of Judicature Court of Appeal On Appeal from The Family Division ... MR. C. HORDERN (instructed by Messrs. Eland Bore Patersons, London) appeared en behalf of the Petitioner/Appellant ... MR. J ... ...
  • G v G (Minors: Custody Appeal)
    • House of Lords
    • 25 April 1985
    ... ... Both had children from their former marriages living in family with them. At the time of the divorce there were three groups of children. The first group consisted of the two children of the father and his first ... ...
  • Watt (or Thomas) v Thomas
    • House of Lords
    • 25 March 1947
    ... ... It is an important fact that the family home was a house at Alyth which belonged to the wife. There husband and wife lived together with a fair degree of happiness till the latter half of ... ...
  • Bernard v Josephs
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 30 March 1982
    ... ... them to be allowed to stay in it? If so, on what terms? If they had been husband and wife, our matrimonial property legislation would give the Family Court a very wide discretion to deal with all these problems. It is contained in sections 23 to 25 of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973. But there is ... ...
  • Breakspear and Others v Ackland and another
    • Chancery Division
    • 19 February 2008
    ... ... may serve a purely selfish desire of the settlor to keep his wishes, beliefs and the communication of certain facts secret from the family. Objectively speaking, that secrecy may in many cases be thoroughly beneficial, since it may tend to preserve family harmony and mutual respect, ... ...
  • B (A Child)
    • Supreme Court
    • 12 June 2013
    ... ... European Convention on Human Rights 1950, "the Convention", that the nature of any interference with the exercise of the right to respect for family life should be proportionate to its legitimate aim, "the proportionality requirement"; and, perhaps in particular, (c) the ... ...
  • ZH (Tanzania) v Secretary of State for the Home Department
    • Supreme Court
    • 01 February 2011
    ... ... There is power to deport non-citizen family members of those deported under section 3(5) but there is no power to deport citizens under that or any other provision of the 1971 Act. It is easy ... ...
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