WV24C50451 - [2025] EWHC 929 (Fam)

Royal Courts of Justice

Strand, London, WC2A 2LL

Before :

MRS JUSTICE LIEVEN

Between :

WALSALL MBC

Applicant

and

MOTHER

First Respondent

and

FATHER

Second Respondent

and

SK

(a Child, through their Children's Guardian)

Third Respondent

Miss Nina Bache (instructed by Walsall Metropolitan Borough Council) for the Applicant

Miss Neesha Mehan (instructed by Star Legal Solicitors) for the First Respondent

Miss Victoria Flowers (instructed by Jackson West Solicitors) for the Second Respondent

Miss Heather Popley (instructed by Wace Morgan Solicitors) for the Third Respondent

Hearing dates: 12 March 2025

Approved Judgment

This judgment was handed down remotely at 10.30am on 11 April 2025 by circulation to the parties or their representatives by e-mail and by release to the National Archives.

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MRS JUSTICE LIEVEN

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.