Seagrove v Sullivan [2014] EWHC 4110 (Fam)

DJ Dodsworth’s short judgment gives a blueprint of how not to prepare a case for trial, and how not to make a relief from sanctions application.

Judgment date: 10 January 2025 https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/b/2025/69 Permission to appeal heard by HHJ Robertson involving a challenge to an arbitral determination in a children matter. Held that the powers of an arbitrator to re-open issues in a case are different to those of

Judgment date: 29 January 2025 https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/b/2025/14 Recorder Chandler KC was forced to adjourn a three-day hearing in the face of W’s legal aid solicitors failing to comply with the Family Court’s procedures. The judge made it clear that where a