The parents of a profoundly disabled young man unsuccessfully appealed a decision that the mother should not be permitted to assist in his intimate care when visiting him at the residential placement and that contact should not take place at their home.
The full judgment is attached below
Neutral Citation Number: [2015] EWCA Civ 411
Case No: B6/2013/3729
B6/2013/3747
IN THE COURT OF APPEAL (CIVIL DIVISION)
ON APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF PROTECTION
Mrs Justice Eleanor King
[2013] EWHC 3859 (COP)
Royal Courts of Justice
Strand, London, WC2A 2LL
Date: 7 May 2015
Before :
SIR JAMES MUNBY PRESIDENT OF THE COURT OF PROTECTION
LORD JUSTICE TREACY
and
LADY JUSTICE GLOSTER
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In the matter of MN (Adult)
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Ms Kerry Bretherton (instructed by Dollman & Pritchard) for the first appellant
Mr N
Ms Aswini Weereratne (instructed by Scott-Moncrieff & Associates) for the second appellant
Mrs N
Mr Hugh Southey QC and Ms Fiona Paterson (instructed by Weightmans LLP) for the first respondent ACCG
Mr Alex Ruck Keene (instructed by Steel & Shamash) for the third respondent MN (by the Official Solicitor)
The second respondent ACC was neither present nor represented
Hearing dates : 16, 18 December 2014
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Approved Judgment
Re MN [2015] EWCA Civ 411