Public children: The proportionality of intervention

Manisha Marwaha analyses a Supreme Court decision on the role of the appeal court and the need for options and mitigations to be properly assessed before public law orders are made Re H-W helpfully adds clarity to the role of the appellate court in circumstances where, understandably given the profound effects of the decision to …
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Public children: Not a foregone conclusion

Natasha Kirk and James Sandiford ask when care proceedings should be withdrawn and highlight that the answer may not be obvious and caution must be taken The guardian’s grounds of appeal centred on criticism of the judge’s decision to determine the issue of threshold summarily, without hearing and testing the evidence of lay parties and …
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