Family Law Week judgment summary: H (A Child : Recusal) [2023] EWCA Civ 860

31 July 2023

Savannah Laurent summarises the judgment in H (A Child : Recusal) [2023] EWCA Civ 860 for Family Law Week. The Court of Appeal considered an application for the judge in a private law child dispute to recuse himself based on apparent bias.

The court set out the test it applied for apparent bias - the narrower test from Bubbles & Wine v Lusha [2018] EWCA Civ 468 was not applied.

Read the full summary on Family Law Week.