Source: All England Reporter
Publisher Citation: [2007] All ER (D) 360 (Feb)
Court: Family Division
Judge:

Hogg J

Representation The father appeared in person.
  Victoria Wilson for the mother.
Judgment Dates: 28 February 2007

Catchwords

Family proceedings - Orders in family proceedings - Residence order - Mother and father making applications for residence order - District judge granting contact order to father and residence order to mother - Whether judge erring by failing to order shared residence.

The Case

The father's appeal against the decision of a district judge, granting a residence order to the mother and a contact order to him, on the basis that the judge ought to have ordered shared residence, would be dismissed. When exercising his discretion in the instant case, the district judge had not been plainly wrong.

Practice Areas

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