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[2024] WLR(D) 282
Court of Appeal
In re D and A (Fact Finding: Research Literature)
[2024] EWCA Civ 663
2024 March 26; June 19
Baker, Phillips, Elisabeth Laing LJJ
Children— Care order— Fact finding hearing— Local authority initially seeking care order in respect of two children— Judge hearing evidence from expert witnesses during hearing— Expert witnesses referring to research literature— Local authority subsequently seeking to withdraw from proceedings— Judge refusing leave to withdraw and holding threshold criteria for care orders satisfied— Judge’s analysis of expert evidence and medical research literature forming major part of judgment— Whether judge’s analysis of expert evidence and research literature disproportionate— Whether judge forming her own assessment of research literature—
Children Act 1989 (c 41), s 31
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FPR
r 25.14(1), PD 25B, para 9.1