(Court of Appeal, King, Henderson and Moylan LJJ, 18 November 2019)
Public law children – Care order – Judge granting local authority’s application to withdraw aunt’s application for placement order – Aunt appealing
The Court of Appeal allowed the appeal as the judge had failed to give an adequately reasoned judgment.
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Neutral Citation Number: [2019] EWCA Civ 1966
Case No: B4/2019/1548
BM17C00319
Royal Courts of Justice
Strand, London, WC2A 2LL
Date: 18/11/2019
Before:
LADY JUSTICE KING
LORD JUSTICE HENDERSON
and
LORD JUSTICE MOYLAN
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W (A CHILD)
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Matthew Brookes-Baker (instructed by Boardman, Hawkins & Osborne Llp) for the Appellant
Vanessa Meachin QC and James Legg (instructed by the Local Authority’s Children’s
Trust Legal Department) for the 1st Respondent Local Authority
Michael Bailey (instructed by Lillywhite Williams) for the 2nd Respondent Mother
Hearing date: 10th October 2019
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