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A City Council v LS, RE and KS (A Child)

Date:13 JUN 2019

Samantha Bangham

Law Reporter

(Family Division, MacDonald J, 4 June 2019)

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Neutral Citation Number: [2019] EWHC 1384 (Fam)

Case No: 19C01398/99

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE

FAMILY DIVISION

Lancaster Castle
2 Castle Park
Lancaster, LA1 1YQ
Date: 04/06/2019

Before:

THE HONOURABLE MR JUSTICE MACDONALD

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Between :

A City Council
Applicant

- and -

LS
First Respondent

-and-

RE
Second Respondent

-and-

KS
(A Child)
Third Respondent

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Mr Andrew Bagchi QC (instructed by the Local Authority Solicitor) for the Applicant
Ms Meghan Gilchrist (instructed by Paul Crowley Solicitors) for the First Respondent
The Second Respondent did not appear and was not represented
M Shaun Spencer (instructed by BDH Solicitors) for the Third Respondent

Hearing dates: 23 May 2019

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Approved Judgment

I direct that pursuant to CPR PD 39A para 6.1 no official shorthand note shall be taken of this Judgment and that copies of this version as handed down may be treated as authentic.

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THE HONOURABLE MR JUSTICE MACDONALD

This judgment was delivered in private. The Judge has given permission for this anonymised version of the judgment (and any of the facts and matters contained in it) to be published on condition always that the names and the addresses of the parties and the children must not be published. For the avoidance of doubt, the strict prohibition on publishing the names and addresses of the parties and the children will continue to apply where that information has been obtained by using the contents of this judgment to discover information already in the public domain. All persons, including representatives of the media, must ensure that these conditions are strictly complied with. Failure to do so will be a contempt of court.