The Weekly Law Reports
[2012] 3 WLR 952
Court of Appeal
In re
J (Children) (Care Proceedings: Threshold Criteria)
[2012] EWCA Civ 380
2012 Feb 1;
April 3
Lord Judge CJ, Lord Neuberger of Abbotsbury MR, McFarlane LJ
Children— Care proceedings— Threshold conditions— Judge’s finding that child suffering significant harm caused by either mother or father or both— Identity of perpetrator not proven on balance of probabilities— Mother subsequently forming relationship with different man and caring for his two children— Mother having further child— Local authority bringing care proceedings in respect of all three children— Whether children “likely to suffer significant harm”— Whether court able to rely on judge’s finding in previous proceedings—
Children Act 1989 (c 41), s 31(2)