‘Private Client analysis: Michael Wells-Greco, partner at Charles Russell Speechlys, examines the issues in Akyuz v Akyuz and examines whether an application for a declaration of parentage should be dismissed or stayed on the basis of forum non conveniens.’
Family Law, 24th November 2017
Source: www.familylaw.co.uk
‘A woman who faked a paternity test to fool an ex-partner into believing he was her baby’s father has been jailed.’
BBC News, 12th June 2017
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Edward Heaton, Principal Associate and Jane Booth, Associate, both of Mills & Reeve LLP, analyse the news and case law relating to financial remedies and divorce during July 2016.’
Family Law Week, 7th August 2016
Source: www.familylawweek.co.uk
‘Spencer v Anderson (Paternity Testing) [2016] EWHC 851 (Fam). A fascinating case in the Family Division throws up a number of facts that some may find surprising. One is that this is the first time the courts in this country have been asked to direct post-mortem scientific testing to establish paternity. The other is that DNA is not covered by the Human Tissue Act, because genetic material does not contain human cells. One might wonder why the statute doesn’t, given that DNA is the instruction manual that makes the human tissue that it covers – but maybe updating the 2004 law to cover genetic material would create more difficulties than it was designed to resolve.’
UK Human Rights Blog, 20th April 2016
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
‘The case is R (Bondada) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2015] EWHC 2661 (Admin), a challenge to a refusal by British officials to recognise the British citizenship of a lady who was a survivor of domestic violence looking to rebuild her life.’
Free Movement, 16th October 2015
Source: www.freemovement.org.uk
‘A 14-year-old girl who was born as a result of donor fertilisation and is now embroiled in an “extraordinary” high court case has been ordered to stay in touch with her two “fathers” against her wishes.’
The Guardian, 15th October 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘The government tried to deny a passport to the daughter of a British citizen in conduct described as “grotesque” by a high court judge.’
The Guardian, 15th October 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘A woman who conned her former husband into believing he was the father of her IVF baby has been ordered to pay £39,000 in damages at the High Court.’
BBC News, 20th March 2015
Source: www.bbc.uk
‘The man, who cannot be named, claims he had no idea that his then wife used her ex-boyfriend’s sperm rather than his to father her child.’
Daily Telegraph, 16th March 2015
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘The Ministry of Justice’s decision to reinstate funding for DNA tests that determine parentage in family court cases was the right thing to do, says the Bar Council after Justice Minister Simon Hughes announced funds for between £500,000 and £1m a year to pay for tests.’
The Bar Council, 23rd February 2015
Source: www.barcouncil.org.uk
In re Z (Children) (DNA Profiles: Disclosure) [2015] EWCA Civ 34; [2015] WLR (D) 76
‘On a purposive construction of sections 19 and 22 in Part II of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984, biometric material seized and retained by the police could not be used or disclosed for any purpose other than criminal law enforcement, nor could a court order its disclosure for an unconnected purpose. Such a construction was compatible with the right to respect for a person’s private and family life under article 8 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms.’
WLR Daily, 5th February 2015
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
‘Family court judges in England will be able to order DNA tests to determine a child’s parentage from September, Justice Minister Simon Hughes has said.’
BBC News, 17th February 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The Court of Appeal has ruled that it would not be lawful for DNA originally collected by the police to be used by a local authority for the purposes of a paternity test.’
UK Human Rights Blog, 11th February 2015
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
‘A family judge was reprimanded by Court of Appeal judges twice in two days and told he should be “embarrassed” by the way he handled a case, it has emerged.’
Law Society’s Gazette, 6th February 2015
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘Re Z (Children) concerned an application in ongoing care proceedings for the Metropolitan Police to provide copies of DNA profiles held by them. The application was made by the children’s guardian and brought so that the paternity of the children could be determined. This issue arose as although the man alleged to be the children’s father (referred to in the judgment as X) insisted he was so, he refused to consent to DNA testing. X was seeking a role in the children’s lives.’
Halsbury’s Law Exchange, 3rd July 2014
Source: www.halsburyslawexchange.co.uk
AAA v Associated Newspapers Ltd [2013] EWCA Civ 554; [2013] WLR (D) 189
“Where a judge at first instance had carried out the careful balancing exercise required in respect of an individual’s right of privacy and a publisher’s right of freedom of expression, an appellate court should not intervene unless the judge had erred in principle, or reached a conclusion which was plainly wrong or outside the ambit of conclusions that could reasonably be reached.”
WLR Daily, 20th May 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“The public has a right to know that Boris Johnson had an extramarital affair with a woman who later gave birth to their daughter, the appeal court has ruled.”
The Guardian, 21st May 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A husband has won £25,000 in damages for ‘bereavement’ after his wife tricked him into believing children whom he raised until they were teenagers were his rather than the products of affairs.”
Daily Telegraph, 13th January 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A teenage mother has won the right to have her dead fiancé’s DNA tested to prove that he fathered their child before he was killed on military service in Afghanistan.”
The Independent, 27th November 2012
Source: www.independent.co.uk
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