2 March Case Updates Experts and alienating behaviour: a fundamentally unsound process Psychology, Psychiatry, Parental alienation, Unregulated Experts, 06. Rules and Regulations In this case, the Family Court makes clear the position with regard to people who describe themselves as psychologists but are not (a) regulated by a UK statutory body; or (b) on a register accredited by the Professional Standards Authority for Health and Social Care; or (c) regulated by an approved regulator under the Legal Services Act 2007. Y (Experts and Alienating Behaviour: The Modern Approach), Re [2026] EWFC 38
11 November Case Updates O v C [2025] EWFC 334 Parental alienation, 06. Rules and Regulations, Children Act A mother applied to set aside what she submitted were findings made five years ago by a district judge concerning the party’s two children in reliance upon a report prepared by Ms G. The court found that there was no doubt at all that the harm that Ms G put forward arose, in her view, from what she regarded as the mother’s behaviour in alienating the children. Ms G had carried out an assessment of the mother which included her own attachment and other behaviours, but that did not form a finding of fact about how the mother actually behaved. Therefore there were no findings with a solid foundation that the mother alienated the children even though the judge expressed it as such, and accordingly no findings to actually set aside.
8 August Case Updates C, Re (Parental Alienation: Permanent Removal to Germany) [2023] EWHC 1955 (Fam) Psychology, Psychiatry, Parental alienation, CAFCASS definition, 11. Report Writing “What is parental alienation?”
3 April Case Updates Re C (‘Parental Alienation’; Instruction of Expert) [2023] EWHC 345 (Fam) Admissibility, Psychology, Parental alienation, Unregulated Experts, Protected titles, 01. Starting your Expert Witness Business, 07. Receiving Instructions, 06. Rules and Regulations, 11. Report Writing “When is a psychologist not a psychologist?”