X County Council v M & Ors

i) an application under the inherent jurisdiction of the High Court for permission not to disclose to the First Respondent, M, the care plan for her unborn child namely to remove the child at birth; and

ii) a reporting restrictions order to prohibit a publication of the above application, the hearing of the same and the order made by the court.

i) I was not satisfied with the evidence relied on by the local authority in support of its application.

ii) Further, the local authority had not notified the mother nor the putative father of the applications. Accordingly, neither were present before the court nor represented.

iii) Before I went into court on 3 June my clerk received an email from one of the mother's treating consultant psychiatrists Dr Z, setting out that his professional opinion and views had been mis-represented by the local authority in the application for a care order and in the social worker's statement filed in support of the same.