“…No other case was cited to us in which a party has been discharged as a party without notice. In Re X (Children) [2018] EWHC 451 (Fam), a local authority supported by the children’s guardian applied for the discharge of a father from proceedings involving his children and initially asked the c…”
“…withholding of documents after the proceedings represents a markedly lesser degree of interference with his rights than arose in Re B and in X and Y (Children) [2018] EWHC 451 (Fam), where a father was discharged from care proceedings altogether. The Judge’s self-direction by analogy with these cases led him to apply the very rigorous disc…”