CHILD EVIDENCE IN THE FAMILY COURT-SUPREME COURT JUDGEMENT

[Alison J Stevens]

Appeal from [2010] EWCA Civ 57. In this judgment the Supreme Court reformulates the approach a family court should take when exercising its discretion to decide whether to order a child to give live evidence in family proceedings. In so doing it removes the presumption or starting point of the current test, which is rarely if ever rebutted, that it is only in the exceptional case that a child should be so called.

Court: UK Supreme Court (UK)

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