(Court of Appeal (Civil Division), Baker and Snowden LJJ, 17 February 2022)
Care proceedings – Fact-finding – Fairness – Whether process by which recorder had concluded that threshold criteria under s 31 of the Children Act 1989 were satisfied was fair.
The Court of Appeal, Civil Division, dismissed the father’s appeal against the decision of the Family Court. The totality of evidence before the recorder was plainly sufficient to support the recorder's findings and no party was unfairly disadvantaged by the process by which the findings were made.
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Case No: CA-2021-000079
IN THE COURT OF APPEAL (CIVIL DIVISION)
ON APPEAL FROM THE FAMILY COURT AT PORTSMOUTH
Recorder Leong
PO21C00010
Date: 17 February 2022
Before :
LORD JUSTICE SNOWDEN
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Z
Appellant
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Hearing date : 8 December 2021
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Judgment: Re L (Fact-finding Hearing Fairness) [2022] EWCA Civ 169
