SQ24C50017 - [2025] EWHC 2078 (Fam)

Following all relevant testing, no blood clotting disorder can be identified.

Only mild platelet function disorders have not been specifically tested for and therefore not diagnosed or excluded. It is recommended that the test for mild platelet function disorder is not used in children under one year of age and, in any event, mild platelet function disorder is very rare and could not cause the bleeding seen in P.

The bruising and bleeding observed in P should be considered to have occurred, on the balance of probabilities, in a child with a normal blood clotting system.