Case summary | Title | Reference |
| Affiliation order - Enforcement - Usual practice in divorce court and in matrimonial proceedings not to enforce arrears of more than 12 months' duration | Dickens v Pattison | [1985] F.L.R. 610 |
| Appeal - Arrears under financial provision order - Enforcement and variation application heard on same occasion | Berry v Berry | [1986] 1 F.L.R. 618 |
| Appeal - Arrears under financial provision order - Enforcement and variation applications heard on same occasion | Fletcher v Fletcher | [1985] F.L.R. 851 |
| Appeal - Enforcement of maintenance order - Suspended committal order made | R v Horseferry Road Magistrates' Court ex parte Bernstein | [1987] 1 F.L.R. 504 |
| Bankruptcy - Limitation - Enforcement of charging order | GOTHAM v DOODES [Court of Appeal] | [2007] 1 F.L.R. 373 |
| Bankruptcy - Limitations - Enforcement of charging order | DOODES v GOTHAM AND PERRY [Chancery Division] | [2006] 2 F.L.R. 844 |
| Brussels II - Enforcement - Extent of power to vary foreign order | RE S (BRUSSELS II: RECOGNITION: BEST INTERESTS OF CHILD) (No 2) [Family Division] | [2004] 1 F.L.R. 582 |
| Child abduction - Agreement between the parties for joint custody and for child to remain with father in country of habitual residence with access to mother abroad - Mother seeking to remove child from country of habitual residence | Re G (A Minor) (Child Abduction: Enforcement) | [1990] 2 F.L.R. 325 |
| Child abduction - Ex parte application - Declaration that removal of the child to Denmark was unlawful under Art 12 of the European Convention on Recognition and Enforcement of Custody Decisions | Re S (Abduction: European Convention) | [1996] 1 F.L.R. 660 |
| Child abduction - Right to family life - Albanian authorities' failure to enforce custody order in favour of father | BAJRAMI v ALBANIA [European Court of Human Rights] | [2007] 1 F.L.R. 1629 |
| Child maintenance - Mother obtaining order for child maintenance - Summons issued under Maintenance Enforcement Act 1991 against father to enforce payment of arrears | S v S (Children: Periodical Payments) | [1993] 1 F.L.R. 606 |
| Child support - Duty upon Secretary of State to consider welfare of child - Meaning of 'defective order' under Child Support (Collection and Enforcement) Regulations 1992 | R v Secretary of State for Social Security Ex Parte Biggin | [1995] 1 F.L.R. 851 |
| Child support - Enforcement - Liability order | FARLEY v SECRETARY OF STATE FOR WORK AND PENSIONS [Court of Appeal] | [2005] 2 F.L.R. 1059 |
| Child support - Human rights - Parents denied power of direct enforcement | R (KEHOE) v SECRETARY OF STATE FOR WORK AND PENSIONS [House of Lords] | [2005] 2 F.L.R. 1249 |
| Children Act proceedings - Committal - Principles of sentencing | RE M (CONTACT ORDER) [Court of Appeal] | [2005] 2 F.L.R. 1006 |
| Committal - Breach of order - Application to commit | Dorrell v Dorrell | [1985] F.L.R. 1089 |
| Committal - Husband in default of paying maintenance to wife due to lack of means - Justices committing husband to prison without considering other alternatives to imprisonment and refusing him legal representation | R v Luton Magistrates' Court ex parte Sullivan | [1992] 2 F.L.R. 196 |
| Contact - Breach of contact order - Committal for contempt | RE P (COMMITTAL FOR BREACH OF CONTACT ORDER: REASONS) [Court of Appeal] | [2007] 1 F.L.R. 1820 |
| Contact - Committal of hostile mother - Contact order endorsed with penal notice | Re M (Contact Order: Committal) | [1999] 1 F.L.R. 810 |
| Contact - Committal order - Litigant in person | RE K (CONTACT: COMMITTAL ORDER) [Court of Appeal] | [2003] 1 F.L.R. 277 |
| Contact - Committal order - Mother failing to comply with court orders | RE S (CONTACT DISPUTE: COMMITTAL) [Court of Appeal] | [2005] 1 F.L.R. 812 |
| Contact - Enforcement - Contact order made in magistrates' court | Re H (Contact: Enforcement) | [1996] 1 F.L.R. 614 |
| Contact - Enforcement - Foreign order | RE G (CONTACT) [Court of Appeal] | [2007] 1 F.L.R. 1663 |
| Contact - Enforcement - Mother determined never to allow father contact | A v N (Committal: Refusal of Contact) | [1997] 1 F.L.R. 533 |
| Contact - Enforcement - Mother found to have wilfully breached order | F v F (Contact: Committal) | [1998] 2 F.L.R. 237 |
| Contact - Father applying for contact to child disabled from birth - Mother and maternal grandmother hostile to father and opposing development of contact | Re F (Contact: Enforcement: Representation of Child) | [1998] 1 F.L.R. 691 |
| Contact - Justices' contact order not complied with by mother - Application by father to enforce contact order unsuccessful | F v R (Contact: Justices' Reasons) | [1995] 1 F.L.R. 227 |
| Contact - Mother moving to Scotland with children to avoid compliance with contact order - Father attempting to enforce contact order in English and Scottish courts | GLASER v UNITED KINGDOM [European Court of Human Rights] | [2001] 1 F.L.R. 153 |
| Contempt - Committal - Access order | D v D (Access: Contempt: Committal) | [1991] 2 F.L.R. 34 |
| Contempt - Committal - Breach of access order | Lewis v Lewis | [1991] 2 F.L.R. 43 |
| Contempt - Committal - Committal order unclear | Abdi v Jama (Contempt: Committal) | [1996] 1 F.L.R. 407 |
| Contempt - Committal - Contemnor serving 10 months' imprisonment for repeated contempts | HARRIS v HARRIS [Family Division] | [2001] 2 F.L.R. 955 |
| Contempt - Committal - Couple divorced | Duo v Osborne (Formerly Duo) | [1992] 2 F.L.R. 425 |
| Contempt - Committal - Criminal proceedings arising out of same facts | H v C (Contempt and Criminal Proceedings) | [1993] 1 F.L.R. 787 |
| Contempt - Committal - Criminal proceedings arising out of same facts | M v M (Contempt: Committal) | [1997] 1 F.L.R. 762 |
| Contempt - Committal - Failure to serve committal orders on contemnors in compliance with proper procedures | M v P and Others; Butler v Butler | [1993] 1 F.L.R. 773 |
| Contempt - Committal - Husband disregarding order in wife's favour restraining him from disposing of Army gratuity | Hudson v Hudson | [1995] 2 F.L.R. 72 |
| Contempt - Committal - Non-molestation order | Mason v Lawton | [1991] 2 F.L.R. 50 |
| Contempt - Committal - Order transferring items from husband to wife | Kumari v Jalal | [1996] 2 F.L.R. 588 |
| Contempt - Committal - Procedural irregularities | Nicholls v Nicholls | [1997] 1 F.L.R. 649 |
| Contempt - Committal - Repeated breaches of domestic injunctions | Smith v Smith | [1991] 2 F.L.R. 55 |
| Contempt - Committal - Sentence | Hale v. Tanner [Court of Appeal] | [2000] 2 F.L.R. 879 |
| Contempt - Committal - Sentence | Thorpe v Thorpe | [1998] 2 F.L.R. 127 |
| Contempt - Committal - Wife granted injunctive orders against husband | Jones v Jones | [1993] 2 F.L.R. 377 |
| Contempt - Committal hearing - Breach of injunction | Manchester City Council v. Worthington [Court of Appeal] | [2000] 1 F.L.R. 411 |
| Contempt - Committal on court's own initiative - Due process | RE G (CONTEMPT: COMMITTAL) [Court of Appeal] | [2003] 2 F.L.R. 58 |
| Contempt - Committal order for contempt - No penal notice attached to order | Jolly v. Hull; Jolly v. Jolly [Court of Appeal] | [2000] 2 F.L.R. 69 |
| Contempt - Committal proceedings - Whether applicant in committal proceedings had right to appeal | M v M (BREACHES OF ORDERS: COMMITTAL) [Court of Appeal] | [2006] 1 F.L.R. 1154 |
| Contempt - Committal to prison - Indefinite suspension of committal order | Griffin v. Griffin [Court of Appeal] | [2000] 2 F.L.R. 44 |
| Contempt of court - Breach of injunction - Application for committal | Lamb v Lamb | [1984] F.L.R. 278 |
| Contempt of court - Breach of non-molestation order - Committal order | Wilsher v Wilsher | [1989] 2 F.L.R. 187 |
| Contempt of court - Breaches of non-molestation injunction - Order for committal to prison | Juby v Miller | [1991] 1 F.L.R. 133 |
| Contempt of court - Committal - Breach of exclusion and non-molestation orders | Peart v Stewart | (1983) 4 F.L.R. 723 |
| Contempt of court - Committal - Breach of exclusion and non-molestation orders | Whitter v Peters; Peart v Stewart | (1983) 4 F.L.R. 8 |
| Contempt of court - Committal - Breach of injunction and undertaking | Smith v Smith | [1988] 1 F.L.R. 179 |
| Contempt of court - Committal - Breach of order to parents to return ward to jurisdiction | Re C (A Minor) (Contempt) | [1986] 1 F.L.R. 578 |
| Contempt of Court - Committal - Breach of undertakings | Goff v Goff | [1989] 1 F.L.R. 436 |
| Contempt of court - Committal - Breach of undertakings | Re M (Minors) (Access: Contempt: Committal) | [1991] 1 F.L.R. 355 |
| Contempt of Court - Committal - Committal order failing to comply with requirements of the County Court Rules and Forms | Clarke v Clarke | [1990] 2 F.L.R. 115 |
| Contempt of court - Committal - Committal order failing to comply with requirements of the County Court Rules and Forms | Smith v Smith (Contempt: Committal) | [1992] 2 F.L.R. 40 |
| Contempt of court - Committal - Husband arrested for alleged breach of orders and brought before the court | Roberts v Roberts | [1991] 1 F.L.R. 294 |
| Contempt of Court - Committal - Husband committed to prison for breach of non-molestation order | Harmsworth v Harmsworth | [1988] 1 F.L.R. 349 |
| Contempt of court - Committal - Inter partes committal order deleting sentence reminding contemnor that he could apply to the court to purge his contempt and ask for release | B v B (Contempt: Committal) | [1991] 2 F.L.R. 588 |
| Contempt of Court - Committal - Notice to defendant to show cause why committal order should not be made | Tabone v Seguna | [1986] 1 F.L.R. 591 |
| Contempt of court - Committal - Rules governing exercise of jurisdiction to commit for contempt | Linkleter v Linkleter | [1988] 1 F.L.R. 360 |
| Contempt of court - Committal - Standard of proof | Dean v Dean | [1987] 1 F.L.R. 517 |
| Contempt of court - Committal for contempt - Husband disobeying court order to pay money into a joint bank account pending hearing of application for financial relief | Lightfoot v Lightfoot | [1989] 1 F.L.R. 414 |
| Contempt of Court - Committal order - County Court | Williams v Fawcett | [1985] F.L.R. 935 |
| Contempt of court - Committal order - Undertaking not to molest wife given by husband in divorce proceedings | Hussain v Hussain | [1986] 2 F.L.R. 271 |
| Contempt of court - Committal order in chambers - Court failing to make statement in open court | Re C (Contempt: Committal Order) | [1989] 1 F.L.R. 288 |
| Contempt of court - Committal to prison - Non-molestation order | Westcott v Westcott | [1985] F.L.R. 616 |
| Contempt of court - Court order forbidding husband to enter matrimonial home and use violence on wife - Wife alleging that husband broke into matrimonial home and raped her | N v N (Contempt: Committal) | [1992] 1 F.L.R. 370 |
| Contempt of court - Husband in breach of undertaking not to assault, molest or interfere with wife - Application for committal adjourned generally | George v George | [1986] 2 F.L.R. 347 |
| Contempt of court - Late compliance with terms of court order - Committal order suspended without reference to any period or condition of suspension | Bluffield v Curtis | [1988] 1 F.L.R. 170 |
| Contempt of court - Suspended committal order - Further breaches of order | Lee v Walker | [1985] F.L.R. 701 |
| Costs - Costs of the action - To include enforcement of court order Costs | Wallace v Gale & Associates | [1998] 1 F.L.R. 1091 |
| Disobedience of order - Access order - Justices fining mother for failing to comply with order granting access to child by father | I v D (Access Order: Enforcement) | [1988] 2 F.L.R. 286 |
| Disobedience of order - Access order - Mother's persistent refusal to allow access | C v C (Access Order: Enforcement) | [1990] 1 F.L.R. 462 |
| Domestic Violence and Matrimonial Proceedings Act 1976, s. 2 - Procedure when arrest has been made under a power of arrest | President's Direction Contempt of Court - Committal | [1991] 1 F.L.R. 304 |
| Enforcement - Access orders - Mother's repeated refusal to comply with access order | Re L (Minors) (Access Order: Enforcement) | [1989] 2 F.L.R. 359 |
| Enforcement - Application to vary periodical payments - Applicant in contempt for termination of payments before variation | LAING v LAING [FD] | [2007] 2 F.L.R. 199 |
| Enforcement - Arrears of maintenance - Arrears dating back 3 years | Bernstein v O'Neill | [1989] 2 F.L.R. 1 |
| Enforcement - Child maintenance - Arrears of periodical payments | C v S (Maintenance Order: Enforcement) | [1997] 1 F.L.R. 298 |
| Enforcement - Child maintenance - Judicial review | R v Bristol Magistrates' Court Ex Parte Hodge | [1997] 1 F.L.R. 88 |
| Enforcement - Child maintenance - Judicial review | R v Slough Magistrates' Court Ex Parte Lindsay | [1997] 1 F.L.R. 695 |
| Enforcement - Custody order - Police involvement in enforcement | R v Chief Constable of Cheshire ex parte K | [1990] 1 F.L.R. 70 |
| Enforcement - Foreign judgment - Decision concerning children | Re L (Abduction: European Convention: Access) | [1999] 2 F.L.R. 1089 |
| Enforcement - Foreign order - Order of foreign court providing for staying access | Re H (A Minor) (Foreign Custody Order: Enforcement) | [1994] 1 F.L.R. 512 |
| Enforcement - Foreign order - Order of French court providing for staying access to father in France | Re A (Foreign Access Order: Enforcement) | [1996] 1 F.L.R. 561 |
| Enforcement - Husband in arrears with maintenance - Distress warrant issued by justice | Crossland v Crossland | [1993] 1 F.L.R. 175 |
| Enforcement - Husband's application for variation of maintenance order and remission of arrears - Magistrates varying order and remitting small part of arrears | Berry v Berry | [1987] 1 F.L.R. 105 |
| Enforcement - Injunction - Adoption | Re O (Minors) (Adoption: Injunction) | [1993] 2 F.L.R. 737 |
| Enforcement - Judgment summons - Bankruptcy | Woodley v Woodley (No 2) | [1993] 2 F.L.R. 477 |
| Enforcement - Judgment summons - Bankruptcy | Woodley v Woodley | [1992] 2 F.L.R. 417 |
| Enforcement - Judgment summons - Human rights | MUBARAK v MUBARAK [Court of appeal] | [2001] 1 F.L.R. 698 |
| Enforcement - Judgment summons - Husband failing to comply with undertaking to make payments to wife | Symmons v Symmons | [1993] 1 F.L.R. 317 |
| Enforcement - Judgment summons - Husband forging wife's signature and paying into building society in his sole name substantial amount of money representing proceeds of sale of former matrimonial home | Graham v Graham | [1992] 2 F.L.R. 406 |
| Enforcement - Magistrates' courts - Periodical payments | Slater v Calder Justices | [1984] F.L.R. 719 |
| Enforcement - Maintenance order - Applications to vary order and remit arrears | SN v ST (Maintenance Order: Enforcement) | [1995] 1 F.L.R. 868 |
| Enforcement - Maintenance order - Jurisdiction | R v West London Magistrates' Court ex parte Emmett | [1993] 2 F.L.R. 663 |
| Enforcement - Occupation orders - Payments in respect of rent | Nwogbe v Nwogbe [Court of Appeal] | [2000] 2 F.L.R. 744 |
| Evidence - Contempt - Committal proceedings for contempt | Re B (Contempt: Evidence) | [1996] 1 F.L.R. 239 |
| Financial provision - Arrears of maintenance - Remission of arrears | B v C (Enforcement: Arrears) | [1995] 1 F.L.R. 467 |
| Financial provision - Consent order - Wife seeking to enforce consent order | TROWBRIDGE v TROWBRIDGE [Chancery Division] | [2003] 2 F.L.R. 231 |
| Financial provision - Enforcement - Application to vary periodical payments | MUBARAK v MUBARAK [Family Division] | [2004] 2 F.L.R. 932 |
| Financial Provision - Enforcement - Disclosure of addresses by government departments and HM forces | Practice Direction Disclosure of Addresses by Government Departments | [1989] 1 F.L.R. 307 |
| Financial provision - Enforcement - Disclosure of addresses by government departments and HM Forces | Registrar's Direction Disclosure of Addresses by Government Departments | [1988] 2 F.L.R. 183 |
| Financial provision - Enforcement - Family company | McGladdery v McGladdery | [1999] 2 F.L.R. 1102 |
| Financial provision - Enforcement - Judgment summons | CORBETT v CORBETT [Court of Appeal] | [2003] 2 F.L.R. 385 |
| Financial provision - Enforcement - Oral examination | MUBARAK v MUBARAK [Family Division] | [2003] 2 F.L.R. 553 |
| Financial provision - Lump sum order - Enforcement | FIELD v FIELD [Family Division] | [2003] 1 F.L.R. 376 |
| Financial provision - Maintenance - Enforcement | Macaulay v Macaulay | [1991] 1 F.L.R. 235 |
| Financial relief - Capitalised maintenance - Enforcement abroad | Van den Boogaard v Laumen | [1997] 2 F.L.R. 399 |
| Financial Relief - Enforcement - Power to vary post-nuptial settlement | MUBARAK v MUBARIK [FD] | [2007] 2 F.L.R. 364 |
| Financial relief - Maintenance - Enforcement | K v M, M and L (Financial Relief: Foreign Orders) | [1998] 2 F.L.R. 59 |
| Financial relief - Order for payment of school fees - Quantum not specified in order but otherwise capable of being ascertained | Note: L v L (School Fees: Maintenance: Enforcement) | [1997] 2 F.L.R. 252 |
| Foreign contact order - Enforcement - Jurisdiction | RE G (FOREIGN CONTACT ORDER: ENFORCEMENT) [Court of Appeal] | [2004] 1 F.L.R. 378 |
| Injunction - Committal - Mistake as to whether suspended orders were to be activated concurrently or consecutively | C v Hackney London Borough Council | [1995] 2 F.L.R. 681 |
| Injunction - Committal for breach of injunction - Defendant in breach of injunction restraining him from coming within 250 yards of plaintiff's house | Burris v Azadani | [1996] 1 F.L.R. 266 |
| Injunction - Contempt - Committal | Delaney v Delaney | [1996] 1 F.L.R. 458 |
| Injunction - Contempt - Committal | Keeber v Keeber | [1995] 2 F.L.R. 748 |
| Injunction - Contempt - Committal | Re O (Contempt: Committal) | [1995] 2 F.L.R. 767 |
| Injunction - Ex parte injunction - Committal | Loseby v Newman | [1995] 2 F.L.R. 754 |
| Injunction - Ouster and protection orders - Committal for breach | Burrows v Iqbal | [1984] F.L.R. 844 |
| Judicial review - Committal to trial - Magistrates' jurisdiction | R v Sheffield Youth Justices, Ex parte M | [1998] 1 F.L.R. 929 |
| Judicial review - Enforcement of maintenance order - Substantial arrears | R v Cardiff Magistrates, Ex parte Czech | [1999] 1 F.L.R. 95 |
| Jurisdiction - Costs - Enforcement of order for costs | B v B (Injunction: Restraint on Leaving Jurisdiction) | [1997] 2 F.L.R. 148 |
| Jurisdiction - Enforcement - Breach of child custody provisions of Texan divorce decree | WHYTE v WHYTE [Court of Appeal] | [2006] 1 F.L.R. 400 |
| Legal aid - Costs - Committal | Jordan v Jordan | [1993] 1 F.L.R. 169 |
| Periodical payments - Enforcement - Arrears accruing more than 12 months before enforcement proceedings begun | Russell v Russell | [1986] 1 F.L.R. 465 |
| Practice and procedure - Committal - Undertaking | Citadel Management Inc v Thompson | [1999] 1 F.L.R. 21 |
| President's Direction - Committal applications - Proceedings in which committal order may be made | President's Direction [Court of appeal] | [2001] 1 F.L.R. 949 |
| Reciprocal enforcement - Maintenance order - Judgment of Swiss court as to paternity | Armitage v Nanchen | (1983) 4 F.L.R. 293 |
| Reciprocal enforcement - Variation of maintenance order - Foreign court making provisional order varying maintenance order made by English court | Horn v Horn | [1985] F.L.R. 984 |
| Residence - Residence order - Committal | G v C (Residence Order: Committal | [1998] 1 F.L.R. 43 |
| Section 106 of the County Courts Act 1984 enables county court judgments or orders for sums in excess of o2,000 (the limit currently specified by the Transfer of County Court Judgments (Specified Amount) Order 1984 (SI 1984 No. 1141) to be transferred to the High Court and treated as though they were judgments or orders of that court to be enforced in accordance with RSC Ords 45-52. | Practice Direction Enforcement in the High Court of County Court Judgments | [1988] 2 F.L.R. 563 |
| Statutory charge - Deferring enforcement where court orders property to be used as home or purchase of home - Certificate to be incorporated in body of order | Practice Direction Statutory Charge: Form of the Order of the Court | [1991] 2 F.L.R. 384 |
| Summer vacation business at the Royal Courts of Justice 1986 - Matters to be taken - (1) Injunctions, (2) prison committals and releases, (3) children, and (4) other matters certified as being fit | Registrar's Direction Summer Vacation Business | [1986] 1 F.L.R. 630 |
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