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