Judge: Sir Justice Munby, Lord Justice McFarlane and Lord Justice Floyd
Location: Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
The case was an appeal by a mother following care and placement orders made in respect of her daughter, who was two years old at the time, at the conclusion of care proceedings. The mother argued that the judgment did not take a "global, holistic" approach as required by the Re B-S case, and that the judge's exercise of discretion was wrong. In the case Re B-S, which concerned adoption, the court held that "interventions in the family court may be appropriate, but the aim should be to reunite the family when the circumstances enable that" and that cutting off contact between the child and their family "is only justified by the overriding necessity of the interest of the child".
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