CA-2025-001133 - [2025] EWCA Civ 993

ON APPEAL FROM THE FAMILY COURT AT BIRMINGHAM

UPPER TRIBUNAL JUDGE MANDALIA (sitting as a Deputy High Court Judge)

WV23C50431

Royal Courts of Justice

Strand, London, WC2A 2LL

Before :

LORD JUSTICE BEAN

LORD JUSTICE DINGEMANS
and

LORD JUSTICE COBB

Re H (Children) (Findings of Fact)

Julia Cheetham KC (who did not appear below), Tracy Lakin and Lawren Dobson (instructed by Clarkes Solicitors) for the First Appellant (Intervenor: CH)

Frank Feehan KC (who did not appear below)and Hannah Court (instructed by PCB Solicitors) for the Second Appellant (Mother)

Gemma Taylor KC and Sarah Morgan (instructed by Local Authority Solicitor) for the First Respondent (Local Authority)

Elizabeth Isaacs KC (who did not appear below)and Bethany Stirling (instructed by Talbots Law LLP) for the Second Respondent (Father)

Matthew Maynard and Holly Hilbourne-Gollop (instructed by Anthony Collins Solicitors LLP) for the Third and Fourth Respondents (By their Children’s Guardian)

Hearing date : 16 July 2025

Approved Judgment

This judgment was handed down remotely at 10.30am on 28 July 2025 by circulation to the parties or their representatives by e-mail and by release to the National Archives.

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