CA-2025-001313 & CA-2025-001318 - [2025] EWCA Civ 1044

ON APPEAL FROM THE FAMILY COURT AT WEST LONDON

HHJ Willans (sitting as a Deputy High Court Judge)

ZW25C50018

Royal Courts of Justice

Strand, London, WC2A 2LL

Before:

LORD JUSTICE BEAN

LORD JUSTICE PETER JACKSON
and

LORD JUSTICE BAKER

G (A Child: Scope of Fact-finding)

Mark Twomey KC and Christopher Archer (instructed by London Borough of Ealing Legal Services) for the Appellant Local Authority

Andrew Bagchi KC and Emma Hudson (instructed by Russell Cooke Solicitors) for the Appellant Child through their Children’s Guardian

William Tyler KC and Chris Barnes (instructed by Oliver Fisher Solicitors) for the Respondent Mother

Hearing date: 8 July 2025

Approved Judgment

This judgment was handed down remotely at 10.30am on 31 July 2025 by circulation

to the parties or their representatives by e-mail and by release to the National Archives.

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