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Once you have eliminated the impossible
Is Sherlock Holmes’ maxim applicable to fact finding hearings? The Court of Appeal take a look A (Children) [2012] EWCA Civ 1278 As all Holmes fans know, the Great Detective opined “Once you...
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Terminating parental responsibility – the appeal
Re D (A Child) 2014 http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/Civ/2014/315.html In this case, the Court of Appeal were hearing father’s appeal against Baker J’s decision to use the power in s4(2A) of the...
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Who has the burden of proof?
Well, that’s a stupid title for a blog post. The burden of proof – whose job it is to prove whether something happened, and whose job it is to persuade the Court to make the order is the applicant....
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Law for social workers (Part 1)
This piece is aimed at social workers, but it isn’t exclusively for them. Basically, the law has moved very fast in care proceedings since I started writing this blog, and on Twitter yesterday there...
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Re A Children 2018 http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/Civ/2018/1718.html Long-time readers will have been enjoying the regular frank exchange of views and pleasantries between Mostyn J and the Court...
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