Family Court judgments 2010
Re S (A Child) [2010] EWHC 192 (Fam)
4 January 2010
Judge: Clifford Bellamy
Expert witness: “Dr W” - Kirk Weir - this is confirmed in subsequent judgments.
The parents had separated before the boy was born and was now eleven. Justice Bellamy ordered a transfer of residence from the mother to the father on the grounds of parental alienation.
The case is analysed by Ruth Cain in The Court of Motherhood: Affect, Alienation and Redefinitions of Responsible Parenting, 2011
[2010] EWCA Civ 219 - 21 January 2010 - is the mother’s appeal against the transfer of residence being refused. Reported in Family Law Week. Summarised by mckenziefriendfamilylaw.com. Judges: Thorpe, Wall, Rimer
Then this is definitely the follow on, with Clifford Bellamy and Kirk Weir, discussing the American parental alienation “Family Bridges” reunification method of Richard Warshak.
The case is mentioned in 'The Court of Motherhood: Affect, Alienation and Redefinitions of Responsible Parenting’ by Ruth Cain, 2011
The case is appealed in:
[2010] EWHC B2 (Fam) on 3 March 2010
Judges: Wilson and Henderson
Barrister for father: Robin Tolson
Reported by Jonathan Petre in the Daily Mail. This article features on page 276 of Mothers On Trial by Phyllis Chesler.
And then in:
[2010] EWCA Civ 325. Judges: Thorpe, Smith, Baron
17 March 2010
Court of appeal - previously Clifford Bellamy
Expert: Kirk Weir
Re S (Transfer of Residence) [2010] EWHC B19 (Fam) on 11 August 2010
Mark Berelowitz, Karen Woodall
Analysis by Mary Welstead in Denning Law Journal
Parental alienation and intractable contact disputes: an update, Henry Clayton, Family Law Week, 1 June 2012
Judges: Nicholas Wilson and Launcelot Henderson
W v W [2010] EWHC 332 (Fam)
4 March 2010
Judge: Jill Black
11 March 2010
Judges: Mathew Thorpe, Nicholas Wall, Richard Aikens
7 April 2010
Judges: Nicholas Wall, Richard Aikens
Father was found by a circuit judge to have sexually abused his stepdaughter. Mother opposed sons’ contact with the paternal grandparents. Hamish Cameron said the mother was warping their psychological development with her false belief system. Paul Coleridge ordered a transfer of residence to the paternal grandparents. Wall and Aikens refused mother’s appeal. This appeal followed an earlier appeal by the mother, [2009] EWCA Civ 1551, also dismissed by Thorpe, Baker and Wall, against Coleridge’s preference for the evidence of experts Cameron and Professor Grubin over that of Professor David Jones. The grandparents were represented in that appeal by Caroline Willbourne of 1GC. The mother was represented in both appeals by Robin Tolson.
Obituary of Val Provan, NYAS children’s guardian, who died in 2011.
4 November 2010
Judges: Stephen Sedley, Robin Jacob, James Munby
A father obstructing contact between child and mother.
Parental alienation and intractable contact disputes: an update, Henry Clayton, Family Law Week, 1 June 2012