12 Oct 2007
M AND D BY THEIR LITIGATION GUARDIAN ANTONY GLADSTONE MAHON V S AND ANOR HC AK CIV 2007-404-1624
- Citation
- openlaw-f1460f4d_d0ca_40bc_803b_4f8a201d8c8f.pdf
- Court
- High Court
The High Court allowed the appeal because the Family Court judge failed to undertake the essential prior risk analysis given earlier Family Court findings of long‑running serious psychological abuse and the uncontradicted expert evidence that the risk persisted; absent satisfaction that M and D would be safe, unsupervised face to face contact could not be ordered. The Family Court orders permitting graduated unsupervised contact were set aside and replaced with restricted contact (email/internet only) until further order, with an earliest review after 12 months.