Mrs Justice Lieven DBE :
1.This is the final hearing in a case upon which I gave an interlocutory judgment on 8 August 2022, [2022] EWHC 2146 (Fam). I therefore do not need to set out the detailed background to the matter. The case concerns alleged “parental alienation” and in the August decision I ordered that Z, the older child, should return to the care of her mother, the First Respondent. 2.The representation is Ms Hodnett for the Local Authority (“LA”), Mrs Styles for the Mother, Ms Tyler for the Father, Ms Allen for the Guardian on behalf of X and Mr van Besouw on behalf of Z. Z had been found to be