A Local Authority v DB (Mother) & Ors (Rev 2)

The judge gives leave for this judgment to be reported in this anonymised form. Pseudonyms have been used for all of the relevant names of people, places and companies.

The judgment is being distributed on the strict understanding that in any report no person other than the advocates or the solicitors instructing them (and other persons identified by name in the judgment itself) may be identified by his or her true name or actual location and that in particular the anonymity of the children and the adult members of their family must be strictly preserved.

Ms A Grief and Mr M Edwards (instructed by A Local Authority) for the Applicant Ms F Oldham QC and Mr G Pryce (instructed by Park Woodfine Heald Mellows) for the First Respondent Mr L Samuels QC and Ms M Christie (instructed by Bastian Lloyd Morris Solicitors) for the Second Respondent Mr C Larizadeh and Ms D Peters (instructed by Crane and Staples) for the Third Respondent Hearing dates: 25th November 2013 � 6th December 2013 ____________________

i) a large space occupying right sided subdural haematoma, causing a midline shift;

iii) bilateral retinal haemorrhages some 100 in the right eye and 50-100 in the left eye, affecting all parts of the retina;