Law digests: 24 November 2023

Committal

Manchester City Council v Yusef and others [2023] EWHC 2792 (Fam), [2023] All ER (D) 63 (Nov)

The Family Division held that as the father was in breach of court orders, he was liable to be imprisoned for 12 months. The applicant Local authority had applied to commit the father to prison for breach of orders made by the court, with which it was alleged that father had, once again, failed to comply. The substantive proceedings concerned the father’s four children. The substantive application before the court was an application by the applicant for wardship orders in respect of the children and an order for summary return to the UK from the jurisdiction of Somalia. On the facts, the court was satisfied beyond reasonable doubt, that the father was in breach of several court orders. With considerable regret, having regard to the father’s moving description of the impact his imprisonment had had on him, and in circumstances where the solution lay with the father complying with the orders, the appropriate custodial sentence