K v F

The Appellant (father) in person Ms Paula Rhone-Adrien (instructed by Thomas Dunton, Solicitors) for the Respondent (mother) Hearing dates: 21 March 2023 ____________________

i) For the mother to make the parties then 5-year old daughter, T, "available to spend time with the [father] by way of indirect contact: the father shall send [T], once per month, letters, gifts and/or cards";

ii) With a provision for "such further or other spending time arrangements as may be agreed by the parties";

It is to be noted that T's account of her father's behaviour actually pre-dates the first police call-out to the family home. The judgment continues:

The Judge found that in the incident on 19 January 2020, T is "likely to have been distressed by the altercation and seeing [her mother's] injury to her arm". As to this incident, the Judge further commented: