Legal Framework
27.Rule 30.12(3) of the Family Procedure Rules 2010 provides that an appeal will only be allowed where the decision of the court below was wrong or there was a procedural irregularity such that the decision was unjust. In this case, the grounds of appeal are not concerned with any procedural irregularity. 28.A summary of the correct approach by an appellate court to an appeal against a fact-finding determination by a judge at first instance is contained in [75]-[76] of
- Approved Judgment
- Introduction
- A and D v B, C and E
- Background
- The Judge’s Findings of Domestic Abuse
- The Judgment Under Appeal
- The Parties’ Positions
- Legal Framework
- Re H-N and Others (Children) (Domestic Abuse: Findings of Fact)
- Piglowska
- Re F (Children)
- Re A (A Child: Findings of Fact)
- Analysis
- Ground two
- Re B-M (Children: Findings of Fact)
- Re A (A Child) (No. 2)
- Ground three
- Re H-N and Others (Children) (Domestic Abuse: Finding of Fact Hearings)
- Ground One
- Re F and Another (Children) (Sexual Abuse Allegations)
- Conclusion