Status of Protocol

In re G (Protocol for Judicial Case Management of Children Cases: application to become a party in family proceedings) [2004] EWHC 2793 (Fam)

When transferring a case to the local care centre the magistrates refused to hear from, or to join in the proceedings, the grandparents who had looked after the child for some months, on the grounds that paragraph 2.5 of the Case Management Protocol provides that on a transfer to a care centre, the court can only make case management directions, which did not include joinder of a party.