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Children: Children’s voices
Che Meakins sets out the courts’ approach to children’s evidence and when a child should be joined as a party to proceedings ‘The court must weigh the advantage that a child’s evidence may have in determining the truth against the harm that the giving of evidence might do that child or any other child.’ In …
Cases Referenced
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- Re B (Child evidence) [2014] EWCA Civ 1015
- Re D (A Child) (Abduction: Rights of Custody) [2006] UKHL 51
- Re K (A Child) [2011] EWHC 1082 (Fam)
- Re LC (Reunite: international child abduction centre intervening) [2014] UKSC 1
- Re W (children) (abuse: oral evidence) [2010] EWCA Civ 57; [2010] UKSC 12
- Re W (Secure Accommodation Order: attendance at court) [1994] 2 FLR 1092