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Family proceedings – Orders in family proceedings. B was a young woman with mild learning difficulties. Following local authority intervention she was placed in a care home and her father was made subject to an injunction and orders prohibiting him from having direct contact with her. The local authority came before the court seeking a final determination of the case. The Court of Protection held that it was in the best interests of B to maintain the restrictions in contact and the injunction orders and that it was essential that B had peace from litigation and the instant was the best way of securing it.
Family proceedings – Orders in family proceedings. B was a young woman with mild learning difficulties. Following local authority intervention she was placed in a care home and her father was made subject to an injunction and orders prohibiting him from having direct contact with her. The local authority came before the court seeking a final determination of the case. The Court of Protection held that it was in the best interests of B to maintain the restrictions in contact and the injunction orders and that it was essential that B had peace from litigation and the instant was the best way of securing it.
Update from the Chair of the Bar
By David Green
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