‘appeal by the Chief Constable of Sussex against an order of HHJ Stephen Lloyd, deputy circuit judge, dated 23 February 2009. By that order he refused an application by the Chief Constable for certain disclosure out of care proceedings before him, namely of the statements made by the parents of the relevant children, of the expert medical reports and of any judgments or schedule of agreed facts. Leave to appeal to this court was given by the judge himself. The essential thrust of the appeal is that the balancing exercise about disclosure performed by the judge was flawed, not least because through inadvertence he was not referred to certain rule changes to the Family Proceedings Rules 1991.’
Citations:
[2009] EWCA Civ 704, [2009] 2 FLR 1531
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Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Children
Updated: 20 December 2022; Ref: scu.347733