The WLR Daily case summaries
[2020] WLR (D) 345
Court of Appeal
In re A (A Child) (Female Genital Mutilation: Asylum)
[2020] EWCA Civ 731
Ryder, King, Hickinbottom LJJ
2020 March 12;
June 15
June 15
Children— Orders relating to children— Female genital mutilation protection order— Mother seeking asylum based on risk to daughter of genital mutilation— Secretary of State refusing asylum— First-tier Tribunal finding no risk to daughter of genital mutilation and dismissing appeal— Asylum appeal rights exhausted— Local authority applying to family court for female genital mutilation protection order— Whether tribunal’s prior assessment of risk starting point for family court’s subsequent determination in exercise of its jurisdiction to make protection order— Proper approach to exercising power to make protection order—
Female Genital Mutilation Act 2003 (c 31), Sch 2, para 1