Clive Newton KC

Most recent cases include the following:

• Successful representation in 2024 of the mother on her appeal to the Court of Appeal against a “pool finding” in care proceedings. The Court of Appeal set aside the Judge’s finding that the mother or one of her family inflicted serious head injuries on her 8 month old daughter in an episode of shaking.
• Successful representation of a mother accused of serious physical abuse of her child.
• Successful representation of two intervenors in two separate 2 week cases involving complex medical evidence. Both intervenors were accused of serious physical abuse of babies.
• Successful representation of a father accused of serious sexual abuse of his 3-5 year old daughter in a 5 week case in 2021-2022 involving complex medical evidence.
• Successful representation of a father accused of attempting to suffocate his 6 week old son in a 2 week case in 2022 involving complex medical evidence.

Reported cases include:

• R (Children: Findings of Fact) 2024 EWCA Civ 153
• G-L-T (children) [2019] EWCA Civ 7, (successful appeal against a finding of fact made against the father following a 4 week fact finding hearing in complex care proceedings)
• Re Y [2017] (Learning disability case unreported but discussed by Gillian Geddes in Family Law Week 20.9.17)
• Nottingham CC v LM [2014] EWCA Civ. 152 (important case for the proper construction of Article 15 of B2R)
• K (A Child) 2013 EWCA 895 (important case for the proper construction of Article 15 of B2R)
• MA v LB Camden & Others 2012 EWCA Civ 1340 (appeal against the dismissal of an application for revocation of a placement order)
• JFM v Neath Port Talbot BC and others [2008] EWCA Civ 3 (represented a father accused of sexual abuse)
• D (A Child) (Care Proceedings: Expert Evidence) [2010] 3 FCR 244 (represented local authority in the Court of Appeal)
• Re B and Another (Children: Allegations of Sexual Abuse: Child’s Evidence) [2006] 2 FLR 1071 (represented the child by their guardian in the Court of Appeal)
• Re B (Threshold Croteria: Fabricated Illness) [2004] 2 FLR 200 (represented local authority in case involving serious injury to the child)
• Re M and R (Child Abuse: Evidence) [1996] 2 FLR 195 (important Court of Appeal decision on the correct approach to the welfare stage in care proceedings)

Reported Cases include:
F–K (A Child) [2005] EWCA Civ 155 (private law contact case representing mother suffering from PTSD)

Reported cases include:
P–J (Abduction Habitual Residence: Consent) [2009] 2 FLR 1051 (leading child abduction case)

Reported cases include:

• R (Thilakawardhana) v OIA Court of Appeal Judgment handed down on 17 January 2018 (Judicial Review case)
• R (Gopikrishna) v OIA [2015] EWHC 207 Admin (student’s successful application for judicial review of a decision of the OIA)
• Chilab v King’s College London and Sewar 2013 2 Costs LR 191 (third party security for costs)
• Chilab v KCL 2013 EWCA Civ 147 (appeal by student who alleged negligence and breach of contract by the defendant college)
• R (LR) v FtT (HESC) and Herts CC (Costs) 2013 UKUT 0294 (important case on the applicable costs regime in the upper tribunal)