Case No. EWFC-47

13.I will not set out the law in detail in this short judgment. The burden of proof is on the local authority. The standard of proof is the balance of probabilities. I must have regard to the relevance of each piece of the evidence to the other evidence and to exercise an overview of the totality of what I have heard and read in order to come to a conclusion as to whether the case has been made out. The role of the court and the expert are distinct, and I must weigh up the expert evidence together with everything else. I must guard against a belief that it is always possible to identify the cause of an injury to a child. Some things remain unknown.14.When seeking to identify a perpetrator of a non-accidental injury I must consider the list of people who could be responsible and determine if it is possible to identify an individual on the balance of probabilities. If it is not, then I must ask myself whether there is a likelihood or real possibility of each of those individuals having been the perpetrator.15.I take all these propositions from well-known case law, the core principles which were summarised in