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Sheriff refuses financial order due to “web of deceit"
Agent “lost sight of role of solicitor” instructing expert
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Failure to challenge affidavit evidence can affect case
Permanence order granted despite view of parent's drug expert
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Sheriff rejects claim based on post-separation mortgage payments
No order made as value gain balanced by rent payments
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Medical treatment did not preclude habitual residence
Mother's changed intention to remain in Scotland had become evident
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Amendment competent to introduce separation ground?
Sheriff restates view that time must have passed before action
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Intention at purchase key to matrimonial property dispute
Wife shows how to use s 9 principles to win capital sum
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Sheriff wrong to decide case when proof part heard
Having ordered a proof and heard some evidence, it had to conclude
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Pension subject to Dutch law left out of account
Contingent interest in share scheme counted once value known
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Bar for permanence applications not quite so high
Sheriff held to have placed too great an onus on council
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Permanence order decisions failed to take holistic approach
Inner House allows council appeal in interests of child's welfare
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PVG disclosure scheme to be streamlined
Consultation on simplified system closes shortly
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“No order” ruling justified for contact failure contempt
Sheriff entitled to give opportunity to reflect and change
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Service on a four year old? The purpose of form F9
Appeal Court appoints reporter to take child's views instead
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Unravelling a decree granted in ignorance but not error
Application for recall, rather than appeal, is correct procedure
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No permanence order where kinship not fully considered
Sheriff attacks reliance on expert evidence on proposed carer
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Children held to have new habitual residence in Germany
Order granted for return following removal to Scotland
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Fairness still the test where both cohabitees wealthy
£912,000 award made to partner in legal firm
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Sheriff goes with usage in child surname dispute
Both parents’ names adopted where both already in use
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Non-parentage order refused despite absence of forms
Sheriff holds clinic lost forms signed by both parties
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Should council have appealed permanence order refusal?
Court’s criticism contrasts with approach in English decision
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No expenses awarded despite permanence order refusal
Authority entitled to act on report discredited at proof
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Financial agreement without legal advice held not unfair
Sheriff Appeal Court upholds parties' freedom of contract
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Limits to party's obligations on pension sharing, sheriff holds
Incidental order as way of overcoming liquidity problem refused
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Law of accession does not determine matrimonial assets: sheriff
Home built on non-matrimonial plot should be valued separately