ON APPEAL FROM DEWSBURY CROWN COURT
(HIS HONOUR JUDGE ROSE)
Royal Courts of Justice
Strand, London, WC2A 2LL
Before:
LORD JUSTICE THORPE
LORD JUSTICE WALL
and
LORD JUSTICE STANLEY BURNTON
IN THE MATTER OF H (A Child)
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Mr C Heaton QC and Ms R Exall (instructed by Switalskis Solicitors) appeared on behalf of the Appellant.
Ms T Lee (instructed by Stuart Gordon Solicitors) appeared on behalf of the Respondent.
Judgment
Lord Justice Thorpe:
We are not going to give our judgments today, we are going to write our judgments but we thought it might be helpful if we announced what the outcome is. We are going to allow the appeal, we are going to order a retrial and we are going to ask HHJ Hunt either to take the retrial or to allocate it to whoever he thinks appropriate.
Order: Appeal allowed