The Court of Appeal has ordered the disclosure of serious allegations made against a parent by an anonymous third party in contact proceedings.
At the High Court, Peter Jackson J was of the view that unless X (anonymous third party) could give oral evidence, X disclosing her identity and the substance of her allegations would not be helpful to the court.
X was (in medical reports presented to the court) likely to suffer detrimentally in respect of her mental and physical health if the information held by the local authority were to be disclosed and if X were required to give evidence at court.
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