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19 February 2016
Issue: 7687 / Categories: Case law , Law digest , Family , In Court
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Family proceedings

Q v Q (No 3) [2016] EWFC 5, [2016] All ER (D) 20 (Feb)

The Family Division refused the application by the father, a convicted sex offender for contact with his son as no method of managing the kind of dangers that a convicted sex offender like the father might pose even to his own son had been put before the court. The mother’s application for an order under s 91(14) of the Children Act 1989 would be refused as the present case was not one involving repeated applications. Nor had it displayed on the part of the father the kind of behaviour which, typically, founded a successful application for such an order.

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Taylor Rose—Jessica Draganescu & Emily Hewlett

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