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Lies and the Lying Liars who tell them
A discussion of Re B (A Child) 2012 The case can be found here http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/Civ/2012/1475.html I think this case is of interest, and it certainly interested two of...
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A tottering edifice built on inadequate foundations
The President’s decision in Re A (a child) 2015 in which the Court were asked to make a Care Order and Placement Order on a child who was not quite a year old, and refused to do so – even more...
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Adoption – here we go again?
The Court of Appeal have found the reverse gear to their reverse gear (from the original reverse gear of Re B-S). Sort of. I actually think this is just the Court of Appeal reminding Judges that in...
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Composite threshold documents – in which, a tightrope is walked
Two nightmares of legal blogging this week. The first was the McKenzie Friend case in which I had to write an account of the Court roasting a person for bad behaviour when that person was not just a...
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Judge removes child from disabled mother over costs of care
This is the headline from the Daily Telegraph story. And rightly, we’d be appalled by this. If the reason for the child not being with mother is that it is too expensive to keep them together, that...
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The ever-continuing saga of the (imho misplaced) decision of the framers of the Children Act to express actual harm in the present tense rather than the past tense continues, and perhaps reaches...
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This is an interesting High Court decision delivered by Mostyn J, about the need (or not) for a fact finding hearing when the parent concedes that threshold is met. That’s always a bit of a vexed...
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