Private Law News

Peggy Ray and Janet Broadley represented Rocco Ritchie in the recent proceedings involving him being heard at the High Court. Two judgments were handed down in this case; the first being Madonna’s application under the 1980 Hague Convention for the summary return of Rocco, now 15 years old, to the...

Jemma Dally represented the applicant parent in the case of In the Matter of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008 (Case G) [2016] EWHC 729 (Fam) (6 April 2016). This was a further case where the President made a declaration of parentage in circumstances where a fertility clinic had...

Jemma Dally represented the respondent birth mother In the matter of B (A child) [2016] UKSC 4. This was a complex case dealing with issues of same-sex parenting, Habitual Residence and a child’s nationality. Click on the following to read more: http://www.familylawweek.co.uk/site.aspx?i=ed158713