Source: All England Reporter
Publisher Citation: [2012] All ER (D) 26 (Jun)
Neutral Citation: [2012] EWCA Civ 737
Court: Court of Appeal, Civil Division
Judge:

Lord Justice Laws and Lady Justice Black
Representation Dinah Loeb for the grandmother.
  Deborah Shield for the authority, the parents and J.
Judgment Dates: 31 May 2012

Catchwords

Family proceedings - Orders in family proceedings - Parties to proceedings - Child subject to care proceedings - Parents and local authority opposing grandmother's wish to care for child - Local authority reports concluding further assessments required of grandmother - Grandmother applying to become a party to care proceedings - Judge finding grandmother having no good arguable case and refusing application - Grandmother submitting judge applying too high a test - Whether judge erring - .

The Case

Family proceedings Orders in family proceedings. The Court of Appeal, Civil Division, held that the judge had not erred in dismissing a grandmother's application to be joined as a party to care proceedings, since the judge had, inter alia, made appropriate reference to s10(9) of the .

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