Case No ME22P00646 - [2025] EWHC 2464 (Fam)

Before :

RECORDER SAMUELS KC SITTING AS A DEPUTY HIGH COURT JUDGE

Between :

The Applicant appeared in person, assisted by his McKenzie Friend

Harry Simons, counsel instructed by Beck Fitgerald Solicitors, for the First Respondent

Lauren Baker, solicitor from the Patrick Lawrence Partnership LLP, for the Second Respondents

James Sharpe, counsel instructed by the Local Authority, Kent County Council.

Hearing date: 17 September 2025

JUDGMENT

E (Children: S.37 Direction)

Recorder Samuels KC sitting as a Deputy High Court Judge

This judgment was handed down remotely at 4.30 pm on 26 September 2025 by circulation to the parties or their representatives by email.

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 must be strictly preserved. All persons, including representatives of the media, must ensure that this condition is strictly complied with. Failure to do so will be a contempt of court.