Cases

Clayton v Clayton

Facts

The parties settled their custody dispute over their child, E, in July 2005, by entering into a shared care arrangement. The father was a campaigner for fathers' rights and wished to discuss the case, including his abduction of the child in 2002, in the media. However at the conclusion of the proceedings the judge made an order which had the effect of preventing him from discussing the case openly at all on the grounds that this would identify the child as the subject of the proceedings. The judge ruled that s.97 of the Children Act 1989 prevented identification of the child as the subject of the proceedings until the child's 18th birthday. The father appealed the judge's order.

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