A and B (Contact) (No 4)

Miss Daisy Hughes (instructed by Local Authority Solicitor) for the Local Authority Ms Deborah Baxter (Solicitor-Advocate from Baxter Harries) for M1 and M2 Miss Sarah Evans (by Direct Access, pro bono) for F1 and F2 Miss Sarah Cove (Solicitor from Miles & Partners LLP) for A Ms Liz Dronfield (Solicitor from Bindmans) for the Children's Guardian Hearing dates: 9 and 10 September 2015, Supplemental written submissions: 25 September 2015 ____________________

I gave a further short judgment on 4 June 2015 which is unreported, but the key elements of which I discuss a little below.

i) I extended the supervision order to 4 October 2015 in relation to B (but not A);

ii) I dismissed the fathers' applications for (a) a suspended residence order, (b) orders warding the children and (c) permission to instruct a yet further expert witness (which would, on my reckoning, have brought the tally to 19 different professionals whom the children have been expected to see);

iii) I refused the fathers' application for permission to appeal (so far as I know they did not renew that application to the Court of Appeal);