Family Law Week: Lancashire CC v G (No 4)(Continuing Unavailability of Regulated Placement) 2021 EWHC 244 (Fam)
1. This is the fourth judgement I have delivered in this matter. At the beginning of my first judgment (see Lancashire CC v G (Unavailability of Secure Accommodation) [2020] EWHC 2828 (Fam)) I recalled the maxim that the measure of a society can be obtained from how that society treats its most vulnerable members, citing the formulation adopted by Nelson Mandela on 8 May 1995 that "there can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children". 2. Approaching six months on from the commencement of these proceedings under the inherent jurisdiction o...