Case No. ZE17P01593

. The case presented very serious allegations of coercive and controlling behaviour by the father (F), in the context of two relationships. The first of the relationships analysed in that judgment concerned the mother (M) of the two children with whom I am concerned at this hearing. They are Y, now aged 8, and S, now aged 5. The litigation history, as I recorded in the earlier judgment, had been extraordinarily protracted. The final fact-finding hearing, which I concluded in January 2021, had been adjourned 6 times. The originating application was made by F in October 2017. In August 2021, there had been a successful appeal from a case management decision by a Circuit Judge, and the case was then allocated to me. Peter Jackson LJ, delivering the judgment of the Court of Appeal, referred to the “extremely difficult procedural history”. 2.My judgment sets out very serious findings, at the highest end of the index of gravity, within the sphere of coercive and controlling behaviour. The findings have not been appealed. My approach, in the judgment, to this particularly insidious type of abuse, was approved by the Court of Appeal in