A v B

Ms Perrins (instructed by Kesha Pabari of Osbornes LLP) for the applicant Mr Bennett (instructed by Bindmans LLP) for the respondent Hearing dates: 13th and 14th February 2025 ____________________

i) that the child has been present and has been exposed to verbal and emotional abuse perpetrated by the father towards the mother and that this would have caused him some stress;

ii) the father made threats of violence towards [B] which included threatening to 'beat her up', 'break her nose', 'break her face' and 'physically hurt her';

iii) on or around May/June 2017, the father used threatening and controlling behaviour in that he made threats, insisted she owed him money, called her a 'terrible mother' and threatened only to cease his behaviour if she facilitated contact arrangements between him and the child;

iv) in late May/ early January 2017 after she took out a Mercedes car on finance for the father, who she says agreed to cover the finance payments, he abused this position to be financially abusive and controlling towards her, resulting in bailiffs attending the mother's property. The father threatened to withhold financial payments unless she agreed to his contact proposals.