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[2018] WLR (D) 475
Court of Appeal
In re A (Children) (Care Proceedings: Standard of Proof)
[2018] EWCA Civ 1718
2018 July 3; 25
Ryder, Black, Sales LJJ
Children— Care proceedings— Threshold criteria— Local authority applying for care orders in respect of five children following death of child— Judge finding local authority not having proved injuries to child deliberately inflicted— Judge deciding threshold criteria for care orders not met— Whether judge failing properly to consider totality of all evidence— Whether judge erring in determining that case to be decided in percentage terms by reference only to burden of proof— Proper approach to burden of proof