[2025] EWHC 508 (Fam)

Case Nos: LU22C03038 & FD22P00061

Royal Courts of Justice

Strand, London, WC2A 2LL

Before :

MR JUSTICE KEEHAN

Between :

Sam Wallace (instructed by a Borough Council) for the Applicant

Ruth Kirby KC (instructed by Goodman Ray Solicitors) for the First and Second Respondents

Alison Brooks (instructed by Freemans Solicitors) for the Third and Fourth Respondents

Hearing date: 12 February 2025

JUDGMENT

This judgment was handed down remotely on 18 March 2025 by circulation to the parties or their representatives by e-mail, and by release to The National Archives on 9 June 2025.

This judgment was delivered in private. The judge has given leave for this version of the judgment to be published on condition that (irrespective of what is contained in the judgment) in any published version of the judgment the anonymity of the children and members of their family must be strictly preserved. All persons, including representatives of the media and legal bloggers, must ensure that this condition is strictly complied with. Failure to do so may be a contempt of court.