Re J and K (Children: Private Law) [2014] EWHC 330 (Fam)
14 February 2014
The mother was represented pro bono by barrister Francesca Wiley. The father was assisted by Alison Bushell, a McKenzie friend.
After ten years of litigation, the parents reached agreement on contact. Justice Pauffley congratulated all concerned.
MB v SB [2014] EWHC 3719 (Fam)
12 March 2014
Judge: Anthony Hayden
Not parental alienation. Habitual residence in UK or Israel.
14 February 2014
Judge: Michael Keehan
An earlier judge had found that the father had sexually abused his daughter. The father refused to accept this finding and pursued the mother through court and through a website, claiming the mother was an alienator. Keehan refused all contact, including indirect contact, and imposed a barring order.
14 October 2015
Judge: Stephen Cobb
Preceded by:
Preceded by :
20 December 2011
Judge: Mark Hedley
31 July 2013
Judge: Stephen Cobb
Counsel for the fathers: Robin Tolson
[2013] EWHC 4150 (Fam)
20 December 2013
Judge: Stephen Cobb
20 March 2014
Judge: Stephen Cobb
The case involved Mark Berelowitz, Hamish Cameron and Karen Woodall.
Re Y (a child: private law: interim change of residence [2014] EWHC 1068 (Fam)
2 April 2014
Judge: Anna Pauffley
J-M (A Child) [2014] EWCA Civ 434
8 April 2014
Judges: Lord Justice Maurice Kay, Lady Justice Black, Lord Justice Kim Lewison
Father’s appeal for contact with his 14 year old son refused. The boy disliked his father because he was racist, possessed “unsavoury material”, had serious criminal convictions, and hated his mother and her family.
W (A Child) [2014] EWCA Civ 772
11 June 2014
Judges: John Laws, Ernest Ryder, Nicholas Underhill
13 June 2014
Judge: Andrew Moylan
Experts: Kirk Weir, Mark Berelowitz
Parental alienation not explicitly mentioned.
This judgment followed [2013] EWCA Civ 1004.
15 June 2014
Judges: Stephen Tomlinson, Andrew McFarlane, Nigel Davis
Expert: Eia Asen, Anna Freud Centre
Law Society Gazette - June Venters QC suggests parental alienation should be criminalized.
T (Children) [2014] EWHC 2164 (Fam)
16 June 2014
Judge: James Holman
9 July 2014
Judge: James Munby
Hague Convention - contempt of court not found
Expert: Hessel Willemsen
The judge found that the father was not alienating the children from the mother, who had mental health difficulties.
5 November 2014
Judge: Damien Lochrane
Custody Minefield: “The case was heard in the Chelmsford Family Court. The Guardian supported an order for shared living arrangements and the mother had interfered with the interim contact arrangements leading to the father seeking a reversal of residence.
His Honour Judge Cochrane concluded that further litigation was not in the children´s best interests. He did however find that the mother the mother had caused harm to at least one of the children as a result of her depriving that child of a proper relationship with his father for a significant period in his life.
The judge directed that contact be progressed as previously ordered, with a penal notice attached. Further, the father was to retain the children´s passports, holidays were to be shared, and the mother was to inform the father of any medical matters in relation to the children. An order for shared residence within a child arrangements order was made, with overnight stays from Friday to Sunday on alternate weekends in favour of the father. Telephone contact was to happen in respect of the other parent when the children spent more than three days away from their care. Holidays abroad for a period of two weeks were allowed, but restricted to countries party to the 1980 Hague Convention on Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction. The children were to spend two hours with the parent who was not caring for them upon the day their birthdays fell due. The mother was prohibited from moving address without giving the father at least two months´ notice. CAFCASS were ordered to monitor contact. The parents must agree on choice of schools in the future.
3 December 2014
Judges: Christopher Clarke, Nicholas Patten, Julia Macur
K (Children) [2014] EWCA Civ 1195
2 September 2014
Judges: Ernest Ryder, Geoffrey Vos, David Richards
13 November 2014
Judges: Stephen Tomlinson, Ernest Ryder, Eleanor King
Expert: Ciaran Kelly
Father unsuccessfully alleged alienation.
R (A Child) [2014] EWCA Civ 1664
3 December 2014
Judges: Christopher Clarke, Nicholas Patten, Julia Macur