PJ v HB [2023] EWHC 3400: Success in the High Court

Last month, our in house consultant barrister, Zubair Mughal, appeared before the Hon. Sir Jonathan Cohen in the High Court in an appeal from the family court.

The appeal concerned the reduction of contact, and whether the final hearing judge was justified in reducing contact on the basis that Zubair's client had rejected the findings of fact from a fact-finding hearing.

At paragraph 19, the High Court found:

A non-acceptance of a finding does not necessarily lead to a situation where the frequency of contact should be adjusted. It does not seem to me, in this case, that there is any benefit offered to M by the reduction which the judge imposed.

The full judgment can be found here: https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Fam/2023/3400.html

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