Z v Z (Refusal of Contact: Committal)
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Court | Family Division |
| Judgment Date | 1996 |
| Year | 1996 |
| Date | 1996 |
HIS HONOUR JUDGE ORRELL
Contact – mother failing to comply with order for contact – penal clause included in order – mother still refusing to comply – mother committed to prison for contempt.
The parties were married in July 1990. Their daughter was born in September 1991. They separated in November 1992 and the child remained with mother. The mother had an older child as a result of a previous relationship. Later in 1992 the mother petitioned for divorce on the grounds of the father's unreasonable behaviour. The mother claimed that the father had a problem with alcohol and that he was in fact an alcoholic. In February 1993 the father applied for an order for defined contact claiming that the mother would only allow contact with the child in her (the mother's) presence. The mother did not at that stage dispute the principle of contact but because she felt unable to trust the father she indicated that contact should be in her...
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“Dear Judge, I am writing to you because I think it's pathetic”: Re A-H (Children)
...(n 1); Fourman v Fourman 1998 Fam LR 98; Re G (Children) [2006] UKHL 43, [2006] 1 WLR 2305. Cf Z v Z (Refusal of Contact: Committal) [1996] 1 FCR 538. While the facts of Re A-H (Children)55[2008] EWCA Civ 630, [2008] 2 FLR 1188. might be depressingly familiar, the judgment, delivered before......
