Source: All England Reporter
Publisher Citation: [2012] All ER (D) 108 (Jun)
Neutral Citation: [2012] EWCA Civ 720
Court: Court of Appeal, Civil Division
Judge:

Thorpe, Aikens and Black LJJ
Representation Mr Miller for the father.
  Miss Burden for the mother.
Judgment Dates: 4 May 2012

Catchwords

Family proceedings - Orders in family proceedings - Contact order - Father applying for contact order - Judge making findings of abusive behaviour by father towards mother and child - Judge directing father to record reaction to adverse findings - Father refusing to accept adverse findings - Father making threats of abduction of child - Judge refusing to make contact order - Father submitting judge erring by refusing to seek professional assessment of father - Whether judge erring.

The Case

Family proceedings Orders in family proceedings. The Court of Appeal, Civil Division, in dismissing the father's appeal, held that a judge had been entitled, given his findings about the father's abusive conduct, to hold that there should be no further assessment of the father and that there should be no contact between him and his son.

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