(Court of Appeal, Baker and Popplewell LJJ, 5 March 2020)
Care proceedings – Expert evidence – Judge refused permission for instruction of a child psychiatrist as an expert witness
The Court of Appeal allowed the appeal and granted permission for the instruction of the expert.
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Neutral Citation Number: [2020] EWCA Civ 346
Case No: B4.2020/0242
ON APPEAL FROM THE FAMILY COURT
Royal Courts of Justice
Strand, London, WC2A 2LL
Date: 5 March 2020
Before :
LORD JUSTICE POPPLEWELL
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AND IN THE MATTER OF AV (EXPERT REPORT)
Between :
Appellant
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Respondent
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Nicholas Goodwin QC and Jack Redmond for the Appellant
Julie Sparrow and William Horwood for the First Respondent
Karl Rowley QC and Christopher Rank for the Second Respondent
Joanna Moody for the Third Respondent
Hearing date: 5 March 2020
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Approved Judgment
This judgment was delivered in public but it is ordered that in any published version of the judgment no person other than the advocates and other persons named in this version of the judgment shall be identified by name or location and that in particular the anonymity of the child and members of his family must be strictly preserved.
Judgment: Re AV (A Child)(Expert Report) [2020] EWCA Civ 346
