CW v SG [2013] EWHC 854 (Fam), [2013] All ER (D) 117 (Apr)
Where a person had been convicted of criminal offences arising from facts which were subsequently in issue in a children’s case, the doctrine of res judicata applied so that the conviction was accepted as evidence of the underlying facts. In practice, save in exceptional circumstances, a court in family proceedings would proceed on the basis that a criminal conviction was correct.
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