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The list below is of key judgments published this year. Click the folders on the left hand side to browse the archive of judgments now available on the site since we started publishing in 2005.

• A Local Authority v TA & Others [2021] EWCOP 3
  Judgments (27/01/2021)
  Case Summary coming soon
• Salford CC v W and Ors [2021] EWHC 61 (Fam)
  Judgments (27/01/2021)
  Case Summary coming soon
• OX44/2020 [2021] EWHC 91 (Fam)
  Judgments (26/01/2021)
  Case Summary coming soon
• A Local Authority v JK & Anor [2021] EWHC 33 (Fam)
  Judgments (25/01/2021)
  Application by Local Authority for orders under FPR Part 19 r14.21 and inherent jurisdiction to endorse decision not to disclose a child’s existence to his father and maternal family dismissed. Court critical of delay in applications
• F v M [2021] EWFC 4
  Judgments (22/01/2021)
  Mr Justice Hayden’s detailed judgment, making extensive findings of coercive and controlling behaviour, underlines the need for the court to assess a pattern or series of acts cumulatively.
• Rattan v Kuwad [2021] EWCA Civ 1
  Judgments (18/01/2021)
  A wife’s successful appeal from an order allowing a husband’s appeal against a maintenance pending suit order.
• London Borough of Southwark v A Family [2020] EWHC 3117 (Fam)
  Judgments (08/01/2021)
  
• Crowther v Crowther & Ors [2020] EWHC 3555 (Fam)
  Judgments (07/01/2021)
  Successful application for indemnity costs on preliminary issues in financial remedy proceedings when allegations of fraud and conspiracy were withdrawn and claims discontinued shortly before the trial.
• RE AB (Court of Protection: Police Disclosure) [2019] EWCOP 66
  Judgments (07/01/2021)
  The Court considered an application by a ‘Police Force’ for disclosure of psychological reports prepared in relation to AB who was and is the subject of proceedings in the Court of Protection and who is an immensely vulnerable person.
• Z v University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust & Ors [2020] EWCOP 69
  Judgments (07/01/2021)
  A decision by Mr Justice Cohen in the Court of Protection, which reiterated his previous decision to end life sustaining treatment for RS, an unconscious man in a vegetative state. This application had been brought by RS’s estranged birth family, who argued that RS would wish to be kept alive based on his Catholic faith and who sought to move him to Poland.
• London Borough of Lambeth v L (Unlawful Placement) [2020] EWHC 3383 (Fam)
  Judgments (06/01/2021)
  Authorisation of deprivation of liberty of a 13 year old boy in a placement out of jurisdiction – local authority had delayed significantly in issuing application – reminder that a local authority leaves itself open to liability in damages (sometimes considerable) if a child is placed in circumstances amounting to a deprivation of liberty without first seeking such an order
• M v H ( private law vaccination) [2020] EWFC 93
  Judgments (06/01/2021)
  MacDonald J granted a specific issue order authorising the administration of vaccinations to two children, ages 6 and 4 in accordance with the NHS vaccination schedule. In doing so he considered the role of the court in this area, the application of the principles set out in Re H (A Child: Parental Responsibility: Vaccination) [2020] EWCA Civ 664 in private law disputes, the use of expert evidence and the approach to proportionality under Article 8.