For children, this is most often found in the exercise of court powers in relation to care proceedings, but it can also extend to
wardship proceedings (now being used in relation to children who are under threat from FGM (female genital mutilation) or being removed to live in Syria or other troubled countries).
See In re L (a Minor)(Police Investigation: Privilege)[1997] AC 16 (HL)(litigation privilege was held to be inapplicable to the particular
wardship proceedings in question, which were inquisitorial rather than adversarial in nature).
Not exact matches
If he thought that
wardship would secure for her, or for the adoptive parents, any advantage not available in ordinary family
proceedings under Pt 2, he was mistaken in that respect also.»
Waite LJ (at 287) said
wardship was unnecessary: «Rule 9.2 A (1)[now FPR 2010, r 16.6 (3)-RSB- gives C exactly the same rights in
wardship as she enjoys in
proceedings under CA 1989, Pt 2... If, therefore, the judge believed that
wardship provided a means of requiring C to accept a guardian ad litem, he was mistaken.
To seek orders in
wardship to protect a named young person (who is the subject of
proceedings) from undesirable associations is relatively common and was done here
The appellant mother appealed a Crown
wardship order in respect of three of her children, arguing that she had been inadequately represented by her trial counsel and that the children should have been placed with the maternal grandmother (who was herself, at the time of trial, involved in ongoing
proceedings with child protection authorities vis - a-vis her own children).
A civil Court which consists of three divisions: - i) Queen's Bench (can be known as King's Bench Division if a King is assuming the throne)- civil disputes for recovery of money, including breach of contract, personal injuries, libel / slander; ii) Family - concerned with matrimonial maters and
proceedings relating to children, e.g.
wardship; iii) Chancery - property matters including fraud and bankruptcy