News & Events: March 2015
Blog
9th March 2015
Re A (A Child) [2015] EWFC 11 – The leaning tower of Pisa comes to Middlesbrough
“The present case is an object lesson in, almost a textbook example of, how not to embark upon and pursue a care case.” – Sir James Munby, President of the Family Division. On 16 September 2014 Darlington Borough Council issued an application for a care order in respect of a little boy A, who was […]
News
2nd March 2015
Top judge blasts legal aid delays in child case
Leslie Samuels QC recently appeared in Re D is: RE D (A CHILD) (NO.2) [2015] EWFC 2, where Sir James Munby, President of the Family Division, criticised the delays in processing the parents’ public funding applications and said that the parents could be forgiven for thinking they were trapped in a system that was ‘neither […]
