A Health and Social Care Trust and A Mother and A Father and in the matter of RH (a female child ages 21 months)
| Jurisdiction | Northern Ireland |
| Judge | McFarland J |
| Judgment Date | 13 October 2022 |
| Neutral Citation | [2022] NIFam 31 |
| Court | Family Division (Northern Ireland) |
| Date | 13 October 2022 |
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Neutral Citation No: [2022] NIFam 31
Judgment: approved by the court for handing down
(subject to editorial corrections)*
Ref: McF11957
ICOS: 21/004820
Delivered: 13/10/2022
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE IN NORTHERN IRELAND
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FAMILY DIVISION
OFFICE OF CARE AND PROTECTION
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Between:
A HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE TRUST
Plaintiff
-v-
A MOTHER AND A FATHER
Defendants
IN THE MATTER OF RH (A FEMALE CHILD AGED 21 MONTHS)
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Ms S Simpson KC with Ms L Murphy BL (instructed by the Directorate of Legal Services)
for the Trust
Mr H Toner KC with Ms E Ryan BL (instructed by Brendan Kearney & Co solicitors) for
both parents
Mr G McGuigan QC with Ms C McCloskey BL (instructed by Quigley, Grant & Kyle
solicitors) for the guardian ad litem on behalf of the child
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McFARLAND J
Introduction
[1] This judgment has been anonymised to protect the identity of the child. I
have used the cipher RH for the name of the child. These are not her initials. She
has an older half-sister who I will call NG and a younger full sister who I will call
GA. Nothing can be published that will identify any of the children.
[2] RH was born in January 2021 and is now 21 months old. She is the child of
the mother and the father who are unmarried, although the father in evidence said
that they may marry in the near future. The mother has six older children born in
2010, 2011, 2014, 2016, 2017, and 2019 by another man. All those children were the
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