Care proceedings – fact findings

April 2024 | Family
In this article, family barrister Nick Brown from St Philips Chambers, Birmingham comments on the issue of threshold findings in care proceedings and the criminal standard of proof. He writes in light of a 2023 family court ruling following an application to reopen findings of fact. In 2016 HHJ Orrell found ‘to the criminal standard’ …
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