Removal of parental responsibility: C v D and another [2018] EWHC 3312 (Fam)

According to Anthony Gold's Victoria Brown, cases in which the court will decide to remove parental responsibility from a father are exceptional. It is almost always in a child’s best interest for their father to retain parental responsibility, particularly as the court has the power to make a range of other orders to limit the exercise parental responsibility where this is in the child’s best interests.

The very few reported cases that have involved termination of parental responsibility have involved the perpetration of serious physical abuse against the child or other members of their family. The circumstances within the recent case of C v D and another were very different, however were found to warrant the termination of the father’s parental responsibility.

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