Evidence, Practice and Procedure: Contact, appeals and death by kindness

In Re H (A Child) [2013] EWCA Civ 72 three senior judges in the Court of Appeal handed down a reserved judgement in a case concerning an 8 year old boy who was said by his mother (M) not to want to see his father (though he shows signs of enthusiasm to see him). M is making formal complaint to the local authority over a social worker who seems to have questioned her version of events [16]-[18].

There was already contact subject to conditions ordered and directed by three district judges. The case which had started in Brentford County Court in the summer of 2011 was listed by order in July 2012 for a two and a half day (sic) final hearing in April 2013. The father applied for interim contact before that. At another interim hearing the case was released to the circuit judge. He heard submissions for a...

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