Case Law

Fact-finding hearings and section 31 threshold: Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council v VW & Ors [2022] EWFC 83

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Introduction

By Rachel Murray Introduction The High Court needed to determine whether a five-day fact-finding hearing pursued by a local authority in relation to a mother and her two-year-old son should go ahead. The mother did not oppose the care and placement orders that were sought being made, and had made some “extensive but far from […]

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