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Year of Call: 2005

Areas of Practice:
- Family Law

Ruth M Innes

Ruth specialises in family and child law. She is instructed in cases both in the Court of Session and in the Sheriff Court involving all aspects of financial provision on divorce, financial claims on breakdown of cohabitation or on the death of a cohabitant, pre-nuptial agreements, child abduction, relocation of children, jurisdiction in cross-border proceedings, adoption and permanence orders. She has been involved in a number of reported cases including:

  • Simpson v Downie 2011 Fam LR 145 - financial provision on cessation of cohabitation, whether claim by defender competent

  • B v B 2011 Fam LR 141 - contact, whether child ought to become a party to the action
  • B v B 2011 Fam LR 91 - financial provision, whether husband's interest in a farming partnership was matrimonial property
  • S v S 2011 Fam LR 86 - adoption, parental responsibilities and rights, kinship care, removal of child from the UK
  • Selkirk v Chisholm  2011 Fam LR 56 - financial provision on cessation of cohabitation
  • M v M, W Estate Trustees and another 2011 Fam LR 24 - financial provision, setting aside transfer of funds into trust for children, post-relevant date depletion of resources
  • Steel v Steel 2010 SLT 1085 - financial provision on divorce, interim interdict sought against enforcement of a decree obtained in an action of count, reckoning and payment
  • Watt v Watt  2009 Fam LR 62 - financial provision on divorce;  valuation of interest in fishing
  • Smith v Smith 2009 Fam LR 39 - financial provision on divorce;  long term periodical allowance
  • Bain v Bain  2008 Fam LR 81 - financial provision on divorce;  determination of relevant date
  • C v C  2008  Fam LR 28; 2008 Fam LR 96 (Inner House) - international child abduction;  whether children settled in new environment;  children objecting to return
  • Clark v Clark  2006 Fam LR - 90 financial provision on divorce; whether an order for sale of assets of a farming partnership ought to be recalled
  • H v H  2006 Fam LR 59 - child abduction; whether the defence of consent to an application for return of a child was established
  • Carroll v Carroll   2005 Fam LR 99 - residence; whether there was emergency jurisdiction in respect of a child removed from England

 

Ruth has delivered seminars on a number of topics in the field of family law. She is a Reporter for Session Cases and edits the chapters on Cohabitation and International Aspects of the Law relating to Parental Rights and Responsibilities in Butterworths Family Law Service.

In 2011, Ruth was appointed an ad hoc Advocate Depute, prosecuting crime in the High Court on behalf of the Lord Advocate.

Mobile:  07776 182470

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