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Re A: Giving a dog a bad name
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It is fair to say that there has been and continues to be a lot of information for professionals involved in the family law arena to digest of late. From guidance to views working group reports to the constantly developing precedents set by our case-law. Granted not all cases are designed to be laid out as precedents – some are so fact specific one would have a job to follow them even if one wanted to. And then we have cases like
Re A (A Child) [2015] EWFC 11.
This saw the President making an example within care proceedings of Darlington Borough Council following some highly questionable (and that is putting it mildly) case preparation by the social workers and team manager at the centre of the case. The extracts of the local authority evidence make for some uncomfortable reading and in the President’s words keep 'harping on about the allegedly “immoral” aspects of the father’s behaviour'. Added to this were also issues of delay of some 8 months in...
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