Skip over main navigation
Sign up
Log in
Basket:
(0 items)
Clan Childlaw
08081290522
Twitter
Donate
Get help
Search
Search
Menu
About us
What we do
Who we are
Our team
Our funders
Our board
Our Impact
Evaluation
Case Studies
Milestones
Our projects
Wellbeing Webinars & Toolkits
Housing Law Response Project - Covid-19
Care Leavers Law Service
Street Legal
Using the law & human rights
Children's Hearings Advocacy
Get involved
Donate
Volunteer
Vacancies
Legal help
Problems a lawyer can help with
Information about the law and your rights
How to get help for a child or young person
Information for practitioners and professionals
Getting a lawyer
FAQs
Coronavirus
Training
Our Training
Creating change
Our Approach
Policy
Strategic Litigation
Resources
Child Law Network
Child law case summaries
Wellbeing Webinars & Toolkits
Leaflets for CYP
Strategic litigation resources
A-Z resource library
Podcasts
News & Blog
News
Opinion and analysis blog
Admin
Log in
Basket:
(0 items)
Home
Case Summary
Case Summary
“Best Interests of the Child” assessment in cases concerning temporary relocation
Read more
A Scottish local authority Council breached its duty to provide an adequate plan to support an autistic child’s return education
Read more
Appeal of decision to refuse interim indirect contact by video call found incompetent
Read more
Appeals against a sheriff’s decision on appeal from a children's hearing decision should be an exceptional event
Read more
Best interests of children a relevant consideration in discretionary extension of judicial review time bar
Read more
City of Edinburgh Council granted permanence order with authority to adopt
Read more
Court of Session judgment concerning discretionary leave to remain and the distinctive position of Scottish students regarding tuition fees
Read more
Court of Session judgment concerning return orders under the Child Abduction and Custody Act 1985, and the need to take a child-centred approach
Read more
Damages awarded for historical sexual abuse
Read more
Evidential burden on pursers in relocation cases
Read more
Evidential evaluation of hearsay statements of sexual abuse/inappropriate sexual contact from a child in civil proceedings
Read more
Father of young children loses appeal against ‘no contact’ order
Read more
High Court reduces sentence of teenager convicted of knife offence to better promote best interests of the appellant and his re-integration into society
Read more
Petitioner asserting de facto parental relationship with nephews successfully challenges refusal of leave to appeal
Read more
Proof concerning contact arrangements and the appropriateness of an order requiring parental cooperation
Read more
Proof on whether the children's mother had subjected them to unnecessary medical treatment
Read more
Refusal to grant permanence order - failure of local authority to show permanence necessary
Read more
Regarding the effect an acquittal in the criminal courts has on established grounds in the Children’s Hearings system
Read more
Regarding the exercise of case management by a sheriff at Child Welfare Hearings
Read more
Reliance by sheriff on child's evidence from joint investigative interviews to establish s67 grounds was not contrary to right to a fair hearing
NM v CHILDREN’S REPORTER and IM, Sheriff Appeal Court [2017] SAC (Civ) 37
Read more
Reliance of facts established at a grounds referral proof when considering a permanence order
Read more
Removal of children by mother from Italy to Scotland held to have been with father's consent
Read more
Return order under Child Abduction and Custody Act 1985 refused for Italian child placed in temporary foster care
Read more
Ruling on siblings' participation in children's hearings
Read more