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Court Of Appeal Case Ref: B4.2014.1223

Court Of Appeal Case Ref: B4.2014.1724

Re S (child)


The above cases (brought by me) were granted the right to Appeal by Lady Justice Gloster of The Court of Appeal on 24th July 2014.

I have been granted 3 Lord Justices to hear them.

It is Contempt of Court to discuss any live cases outside of court and there are additional restrictions regarding cases for children. These are clearly described in the Practice Directions and Family Procedure Rules freely available on the HMCS website.

As you can see above this matter concerns 2 cases and - as the case name above clearly states - is a child's case. Both these matters make Contempt of Court an even more serious matter. Further, it is in The Court of Appeal (above even The High Court) making this matter more serious still. Contempt of Court carries penalties that include a fine and up to 2 years imprisonment.

You are aware of the risks to the child in this case, having read both my accounts and the father's own accounts of his violent conduct, on this forum. These have already been submitted as evidence to the lower court and as such are part of the court bundle in the current cases with The Court of Appeal.

Please do not discuss these cases, their content or the fact I have contacted you with anyone.

You state clearly in a thread in Forum Feedback and Help that chat logs are available to anyone that wants them. Please provide me with the chatlogs from 1st September 2012 to the present day.

The case is ongoing in The Court of Appeal and the conduct of Cafcass is being separately investigated by The Parliamentary Ombudsman as a High-Priority case so please respond to this matter as soon as possible.

As above, due to the immense risks to The Subject Child of this case, and indeed myself, please do not contact the Respondent Father (username ‘Ronin’) to discuss myself, The Subject Child, this request or any other details of this case.

You are aware from the content of these forums that he is violent, has been consistently identified as a 'High Risk' and 'Very High Risk' by the Police Domestic Violence Unit and that The Subject Child and I have bars on our windows, a high-security door and an anti-arson postbox installed in our home by the Police under the Domestic Violence scheme 'The Sanctuary Project' to protect us from him. The risks are serious and no reasonable person could believe otherwise.

In addition the risk ratings assigned by the Police to the father are DVRAs (Domestic Violence Risk Assessments) made by specialist Domestic Violence Unit officers using the DASH/CAADA system. The multiple assessments and significant Police measures to protect my son and I have been consistent for the full 9 years of this case. So, in addition to the above request for you not to contact him I am required by basic common sense to make you aware that it is my highly-experienced and extremely well-informed opinion that the father is an extremely high risk to anyone, not just The Child and myself.

Whilst this constitutes discussing the matter outside of court I feel the issue of safety supersedes the issue of confidentiality in this instance and that no reasonable person could believe otherwise.

I am of course submitting this message as evidence also.

Thank you

Rachel Waters
(Appellant Mother)