This is a County Court case (if there is such a thing any more, I have largely decided to ignore most of the Children and Families Act 2014 and just wait for the reboot restoring all the terminology to the way it was). So it isn’t precedent, and isn’t one of those case that you HAVE to read.
It is unusual though, and I am grateful to one of my readers (waves at Cara) for drawing it to my attention.
Re E (a child) 2014
http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWFC/OJ/2014/B136.html
This is a private law case, albeit one with a Social Services flavour. In effect, when mum and dad separated and got themselves embroiled in an argument about contact (see, I told you that I was just going to ignore the new terminology) dad started to become enamoured with the idea that if he could show the Court that mum was abusing the children…
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