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LORD JUSTICE THORPE LORD JUSTICE POTTER LORD JUSTICE SEDLEY ____________________
(Computer-Aided Transcript of the Stenograph Notes of Smith Bernal Wordwave Limited 190 Fleet Street, London EC4A 2AG Tel No: 020 7404 1400 Fax No: 020 7831 8838 Official Shorthand Writers to the Court)
MISS SARAH EARLEY (instructed by Legal Practice, Hampshire County Council) appeared on behalf of the Appellant MR JONATHAN SAMPSON (instructed by Child Law Partnership) appeared on behalf of the Respondent Mother MR PETER HORROCKS (instructed by Child Law Partnership) appeared on behalf of the Guardian ____________________
So the local authority sought this powerful order for the relatively restricted purpose of inserting a suspension into what was foreseen to be a long-term continuing relationship between parents and children.
That principle was reiterated in the later case of Re T [1997] 1 FLR 517 and more recently in Re S (Care: Parental Contact ) [2004] EWCA Civ 1397.
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