A v B & Ors [2025] EWFC 384 (B) (17 October 2025): Fact-finding in child arrangements proceedings, concerning allegation of sexual abuse of child. Finding not made. Role of professionals criticised. www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWF...

X (A Child) (Husband of Child's Mother: Declaration of No Parental Responsibility) [2025] EWHC 2542 (Fam): Application by biological father for declaration that the mother's husband does not have parental responsibility for the child. Declaration granted. www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWH...

A Local Authority v M & Ors [2025] EWFC 380 (B) : Care proceedings, issued following discovery of unexplained fractures suffered by the child. Permission given to withdraw, after expert evidence found fractures likely to have been accidental. www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWF...

Times Media Ltd v Rayner & Ors [2025] EWHC 2878 (Fam) (10 November 2025): Costs judgment in application by Times Media for disclosure of documents relating to financial remedies consent order. www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWH...

OO v QQ [2025] EWFC 310 (B) (21 May 2025): Wife's financial remedies application. Wife suffering terminal cancer. Assets divided 56%/44% in favour of wife, to meet her needs. www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWF...

Medway v X and Ors [2025] EWFC 375 (B) (31 October 2025): Care proceedings relating to 3 children, issued following concerns over the mother's mental health. Judgment making care orders in relation to 2 youngest children, who shared the same father. www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWF...

Refusal of Application for Stay of Divorce Petition [2025] EWFC 377 (B): H's application to stay W's divorce application, on the basis that he had already issued proceedings in Egypt. Held that England was the appropriate forum, & H's application refused. www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWF...

North Lincolnshire Council v M1 & Ors [2025] EWFC 378 (B) (24 October 2025): Fact-finding in 2 sets of public law proceedings, linked because 4 of the 6 children in the 2 families shared the same father. Various allegations found proved. www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWF...

X v Y (Fact finding) [2025] EWFC 373 (B) (4 November 2025): Fact-finding in child arrangements proceedings, concerning mother's allegations of abuse against father. Abusive behaviour towards children proved, but most other allegations not proved. www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWF...

A (A Child) (Mother killed by Father), Re [2025] EWFC 374: Application by maternal grandmother for an order that granddaughter live with her, made after the child's father had killed the mother. Special guardianship order made in grandmother's favour. www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWF...

B (Child Abduction: Settlement) [2025] EWCA Civ 1382 (04 November 2025): Appeal by mother against order for return of child to Portugal. Appeal allowed, on the basis that the child was settled here when the proceedings commenced. www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWC...

A v N [2025] EWFC 371 (B) (31 October 2025): Financial remedies, in which the primary issue was the value of wife's mother's interest in FMH. Sale ordered, with proceeds divided 12% to mother, 56% to wife (to meet her housing needs), and 32% to husband. www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWF...

S, Re (Wardship: Removal to Ghana Rehearing) [2025] EWHC 2836 (Fam): Rehearing of application by 14 year-old for orders that would result in him returning here from Ghana. Ordered that he remain in Ghana, with aim of returning here after completing GCSEs. www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWH...

Court of Appeal says judge was wrong to terminate care proceedings at Issues Resolution Hearing in case with “dreadful history of delay”: localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk/child-protec...

Judge expresses concern at “staggering cost” of placement for boy at risk of child criminal exploitation: localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk/child-protec...

J, K, L & M, In the Matter Of [2025] EWFC 367 (B) (08 October 2025): Final hearing of care proceedings relating to 4 children, issued following concerns including physical, emotional, and sexual abuse of the children, domestic abuse and neglect. Care orders made. www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWF...

D (Threshold Findings and Final Orders at IRH), Re Neutral Citation Number [2025] EWCA Civ 1362 (30 October 2025): Appeal by parents against care and placement orders made at IRH. Appeal allowed, due to lack of judicial explanation. caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewca/civ/202...

C (A Child), Re (Section 91(14) Children Act 1989 order) [2025] EWFC 363 (B) (07 October 2025): Cross-applications to vary/enforce child arrangements order. Order left largely intact, and s.01(14) order made for 12 months. www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWF...

Buckinghamshire County Council v U & V [2025] EWFC 365 (B) (29 August 2025): Care proceedings, issued following concerns centred around long term neglect, parental substance misuse and domestic abuse. Care and placement orders made. www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWF...

Z Local Authority v PQ & Ors [2025] EWFC 352 (B) (18 September 2025): Care proceedings, issued following concerns regarding father's violence and abuse. Child placed with mother, under supervision order. www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWF...

London Borough of Waltham Forest v A & Anor [2023] EWFC 342 (B) (08 September 2025): Care proceedings in relation to child whose mother suffers from Schizoaffective Disorder. Care and placement orders made. www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWF...

B & Anor v D & Anor [2025] EWFC 366 (29 October 2025): Application for parental order following surrogacy arrangement in Nigeria, where the applicants did not know the identity of the gestational surrogate. Parental order made. www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWF...

Q (A Child), Re (Withdrawal of Treatment) [2025] EWHC 2782 (Fam): Application by NHS Trust for declaration that continued intubation & mechanical ventilation treatment no longer in the best interests of child with profound brain injury. Declaration made. www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWH...

K-H (Children)(Care Orders: Proportionality) [2025] EWCA Civ 1368 (29 October 2025): Appeal against care orders by grandparents, with whom children had been placed before the proceedings began. Appeal allowed, and care orders discharged. www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWC...

M v F [2025] EWFC 364 (B) (27 October 2025): Fact-finding in private law proceedings, concerning mother's allegations against father, in particular that he had sexually abused the child. Allegations not proved. www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWF...

S v London Borough of Islington & Anor [2025] EWHC 2780 (Fam) (09 October 2025): Application by mother of child subject to an interim care order for an order preventing the local authority from having the child vaccinated. Application dismissed. www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWH...

M v F (Domestic Abuse: International Relocation) [2025] EWFC 360: M's application for permission to relocate to her home country, inc fact-finding re her abuse allegations against F. Application adjourned, but most of the allegations proven/admitted. www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWF...

H (A Boy, Aged 3), Re [2025] EWFC 339 (B) (27 August 2025): Appeal by father from order permitting mother to relocate with the child to Cornwall. Appeal allowed. www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWF...

A, F and Z (Children) (Findings of Fact: Domestic Abuse), Re [2025] EWFC 358 (B): Fact-finding in public law proceedings concerning local authority's allegations that the father had physically abused the mother and children. Allegations found proved. www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWF...

Local Authority v C & Anor [2025] EWHC 2753 (Fam) (01 October 2025): Judgment making deprivation of liberty declaration in relation to child involved in organised criminal activity and at high risk of child exploitation. www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWH...

XX v XX [2025] EWHC 2756 (Fam): Application by M for permission to appeal, inter alia, refusal to change child's surname from that of F to that of M, & to extend non-mol order. Permission refused re: change of name, but appeal allowed re: non-mol order. www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWH...

H, Re (Final Care Orders at IRH) [2025] EWCA Civ 1342 (23 October 2025): Appeal by father against final care orders made at Issues Resolution Hearing. Appeal allowed, and care orders set aside. www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWC...

W v W [2025] EWFC 356 (10 October 2025): Appeal by father against refusal of permission to apply for a s.8 Children Act order, there being in place an order under section 91(14). Appeal allowed, due to a serious procedural irregularity. www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWF...