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Attributing Harm: Child Abuse and the Unknown Perpetrator

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 January 2001

Andrew Bainham
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How far should we as a society concerned to protect children be prepared to run the risk of trampling on the rights of potentially innocent parents? Once the technicality is stripped away, this was essentially the issue which the House of Lords confronted in Lancashire County Council v. B [2000] 2 W.L.R. 590. The courts may only make a care or supervision order where the local authority can satisfy the “threshold conditions” in the Children Act 1989, s.31(2).

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The Cambridge Law Journal , Volume 59 , Issue 3 , 16 November 2000 , pp. 458 - 461
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Copyright © Cambridge Law Journal and Contributors 2000

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