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Alt: Mundy, Advocate instructed by D McKinnon, Solicitor of Messrs Finlay Macrae, Solicitors, Dundee
The Sheriff having resumed consideration of the cause REPELS the first plea-in-law for the Defenders; REMITS the cause to the Procedural Roll of 2004 at 10 am at Dundee Sheriff Court, Civil Annex, Court House Square, Dundee in order to determine and regulate further procedure.
[1] This is an action raised by Miss E aged 14 years seeking contact with her siblings aged 4 and 12 years old.
[2] A plea to the competency of the proceedings was taken by the Defenders, Miss E's parents on the grounds that it was not competent for the court to make an award of contact in favour of a pursuer under sixteen years of age.
[3] After a Notice of Intention to Defend and skeleton defences were lodged which included the plea to competency, it was agreed by parties that an early hearing on the competency of the case should be fixed and a Child Welfare Hearing and Options Hearing which had been fixed were both discharged.
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