“…red to the Guidance published by the Family Justice Council in April 2022, Guidance on Assessing Child’s Competence to Instruct a Solicitor, to Re CS (A Child) [2019] 1 WLR 4286 and to A and B (Recission of Order: Change of Circumstances) [2022] 1 FLR 1143. In the latter case, Cobb J recorded, without demur at [57], Mr Netto’s “own ass…”
“…In CS v SBH(Appeal FPR 16.5: Sufficiency of Child's Understanding) [2019] EWHC 634 (Fam), [2019] 1 WLR 4286 at paras. 63-65, Williams J analysed and adopted the approach recommended in Re W, leading in that case to the conclusion that a 12-year-old child did not have…”