AD & AM (Fact-Finding Hearing) (Application for Re-Hearing) [2016] EWHC 326 (Fam) (24 February 2016)

In the High Court of Justice - Family Division

The Honourable Mr. Justice Cobb : "By this judgment, I set out my reasons for directing a re-consideration of findings of fact which I made within Part IV Children Act 1989 care proceedings in July 2013, following an investigation into the cause of life-threatening injuries to a 10 month old baby boy.

By my earlier judgment, I concluded that the baby's mother had caused these injuries to her son (see Re AD & AM (Finding of Fact: Non-Accidental Injury) [2013] EWHC 4859 (Fam)) and that the injuries were non-accidental. However, more recent medical opinion on the cause of the injuries, centred to some extent on pathological analysis of a segment of the baby boy's skull (which had, to all intents and purposes, been lost at the time of my earlier hearing), provide proper grounds on which this court should review its earlier conclusions.

The scope of the re-hearing is yet to be decided; that decision will be influenced by the outcome of an experts' meeting which I propose should be convened as a matter of some urgency."

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