Jones (Simon) v Mary Ivors
| Jurisdiction | Northern Ireland |
| Judge | District Judge (MC) Meehan |
| Judgment Date | 22 October 2015 |
| Neutral Citation | [2015] NICty 4 |
| Year | 2015 |
| Court | County Court (Northern Ireland) |
| Date | 22 October 2015 |
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Neutral Citation No. [2015] NICty 4
Ref:
Judgment: approved by the Court for handing down Delivered:
22/10/2015
(subject to editorial corrections)*
PETTY SESSIONS DISTRICT OF BELFAST
COUNTY COURT DIVISION OF BELFAST
SIMON JONES
Applicant
AND
MARY IVORS
Respondent
JUDGE JOHN I MEEHAN
Panel’s Reason for the Dismiss of the Application
1. Having withdrawn to consider the case earlier today, the Panel returned and I read
out a short statement of prepared reasons for dismissing this Application. The
Applicant’s solicitor responded with the remark that the case had only been listed for
review and adding that she would require written reasons. This is a re-statement of
what was read in court, albeit with some elaboration for the purposes of greater clarity.
2. The Applicant obtained a Final Order for defined contact from Belfast Family
Proceedings Court in July 2015. The next month, he issued a fresh C1, which declared
that the Order he sought was one for a “defined contact” Order. When I pointed out
this contradiction the Applicant’s solicitor would not accept that the more appropriate
application would be one to vary the present Order. She reported that the Applicant
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