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Civil Fraud Quarterly Round-Up: Q4 2025
Mary Young
14 August 2013
Preparing for the best outcome in child relocation cases
Dealing with the relocation of children to another country in situations of family breakdown can be highly complex and challenging – and in most cases, there is no win-win situation for any party involved. The very recent High Court decision in the case of CB v CB [2013] EWHC 2092 shows this. This involved a dispute between an Australian-British dual citizen mother and a British father. Their son, aged 14, had stayed with his father in England after a Christmas visit. This followed a two year period where the mother had relocated to Australia with the child to live on a short-term basis, with the father's permission.
12 July 2013
Playing catch up – legal issues arising from the go-ahead for mitochondrial transfers?
On 28 June 2013, the UK Government announced that it has given the go ahead to a technique called “mitochondrial transfer”, which could not have been better timed - just ahead of the second International Family Law and Practice Conference 2013 “Parentage, Equality and Gender”.
8 July 2013
Summer surge in children applications - dealing with the queues in Court
Today, CAFCASS (The Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service) confirmed receipt of 4,267 new private law referrals for the month of June, representing a 29% increase on the figures for the same month last year. Last month’s report confirmed that 5,038 cases were referred in May 2013, which was the highest amount on record. These figures show that, after a slight lull in 2011 (after the introduction of compulsory Mediation Information and Assessment Meetings (MIAMs) in 2010), private law children applications are on the increase.
27 February 2013
The Children and Families Bill - from a young person's perspective
This week, the Department of Education published a Young Person’s Guide to the Children and Families Bill (which had its second reading in Parliament on 25th February) written specifically for a younger audience. The guide, according to the Department’s website, is designed to provide young people with a “good summary” of the proposed changes to the law and what it might mean for them. Lucy Thomas, Senior Associate in Family, takes a look at the guide.
25 February 2013
The Children and Families Bill - a presumption of shared parenting?
Today, 25 February, the new Children and Families Bill has its second reading in Parliament.
Among a number of changes, the new Bill will provide statutory recognition that it's in the child's interests for both parents to remain involved in the child's life. As the wording of the proposed statute states ‘ the involvement of [each] parent in the life of the child concerned will further the child’s welfare’ (unless the children will be at risk of harm).
