Search judgments by proposition, citation, court, judge or legal topic, then move directly into the source-grounded case analysis.
Results update automatically as you type.
Hong Kong decisions
Decisions matching the current search
The Court of Appeal refused leave to appeal, rejected fresh evidence, and declined a stay in a child custody and access dispute involving expert evidence and alleged parental alienation.
The Court of Appeal refused leave to appeal, dismissed new evidence and stay applications, and upheld paper determination of expert issues in a child custody dispute.
Court accepted social welfare and clinical psychologist reports that there was no evidence mother deliberately alienated the child; the child, competent for his age, expressed a settled wish to live with mother; maintaining stability and status quo was in the child's best interests; therefore order varied to joint custody with mother having care and control and a defined contact regime for father, and limited travel permission for mother with safeguards.
Source excerpt
The court varied a child-arrangements order, kept joint custody, granted care and control of both children to the father, and set defined access and holiday sharing for the mother.
The District Court dismissed the father’s bid for sole care and control, allowed the mother to relocate the child to Singapore, and made a section 18 declaration.
The court found one closet incident and a hair-removal incident occurred, but not serious abuse. An indecent-assault allegation was not proven, and unsupervised access resumed.
The court kept sole custody and care and control with the mother, ordered reasonable access for the father, and refused family reunification therapy with FSC.
The Family Court refused leave to appeal and stay, holding the father had no reasonable prospect of success in challenging refusal to appoint the Family Separation Clinic.
The District Court dismissed a father’s relocation application to Connecticut, finding the move was not in the children’s best interests and would likely damage the mother-child relationship.
The Family Court dismissed a father’s applications to appoint a private Family Separation Clinic expert in ongoing children proceedings, preferring existing government reports and avoiding delay.
Explore more
