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13 October 2017
Issue: 7765 / Categories: Case law , Law digest , In Court
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Family proceedings

A Local Authority v T (Mother) and others (Alere Toxicology and others intervening) [2017] EWFC 64, [2017] All ER (D) 48 (Oct)

A supervision order concerning eight-month-old baby would be made in the applicant local authority’s favour for 12 months, the mother having been found to have used cocaine at a relatively low and infrequent level during the latter part of 2015 and during 2016, but not recently. The Family Court also gave suggestions as to how the presentation of reports might be developed so as to be most useful to those working in the field of family justice.

A Local Authority v AMcC and others [2017] EWHC 2435 (Fam), [2017] All ER (D) 49 (Oct)

Care orders were made for boys aged 13 and 15, as remaining in their present residential care was in their welfare best interests. The Family Division further held that, the presumption of capacity of their nearly 18-year-old brother had not been rebutted, but an injunction would be made, not compelling him to live in any particular place, but restraining

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