K and L (fact finding)

Alex Forbes, instructed by Oxfordshire County Council for the Applicant Howard Wilson of Wilsons solicitors for the First Respondent mother Anne Donelon, instructed by Bastian Lloyd Morris, solicitors for the Second Respondent father Stephen Crispin, instructed by Oxford Law Group for the intervenor IJ Melanie De Freitas, instructed by Reeds solicitors, for the children's guardian Hearing dates: 26th, 27th, 28th February 2018, 1st, 2nd, 5th, 6th and 9th March 2018 ____________________

(a) that the child concerned is suffering, or is likely to suffer, significant harm; and

'Evidence cannot be evaluated and assessed in separate compartments. A judge in these difficult cases must have regard to the relevance of each piece of evidence and exercise a totality of the evidence to come to the conclusion of whether the case put forward by the local authority has been made out to the appropriate standard of proof.'

'A factual decision must be based on all available materials; i.e. be judged in the context and not just upon medical or scientific materials, no matter how cogent they may in isolation seem to be.'

IJ: It was K being K and he was having one of his days where even AB (social worker) could see on the Wednesday she came round and he was putting paint he put a little bit of paint on AB's jumper and a bit on my cheek and I was repeating myself and it's just K being not listening to you.