TF v RF & Ors

This judgment is being handed down in private on 2 November 2007. It consists of 31 pages and has been signed and dated by the judge. The judge hereby gives leave for it to be reported.

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 name or location and that in particular the anonymity of the children and the adult members of their family must be strictly preserved.

The Applicant was unrepresented and appeared in person Miss van Spall (instructed by dfa law) for the1st Respondent Mr Bruce Coleman instructed by Borneo Linnells Solicitors) for the 2nd and 3rd Respondents (through their Guardian ad litem) Hearing dates: 3, 4 & 5 September 2007 ____________________

"However they accepted that contact was to be stopped, and why and are aware that it may be decided that further contact in the near future may not be reinstated. Since all direct contact was suspended, they have e-mailed their father, and have been very upset that they have received nothing in return. They have always lived with that mother and would wish that this to remain the position."