i am going to bring in a magistrate, rupert holderness, a family magistrate, who has presided over similaris baffling to most people, itjust doesn't make sense. why would a court, why would a judge grant contact to a parent with convictions and a known history of serious domestic abuse? these are tragic cases. i can't comment on the individual cases... no, but let's talk about some of the reasons. why do you think? the court will be looking at the risks, as well as the record. they will have advice from cafcass about that. and there is the presumption, but it is not a contact at all costs... that is what it feels like to some people. i can understand that in an individual case it may feel, to the mother of the child, that that right of the father has been given priority over what she thinks ought to happen. in these disputed cases, then it is also inevitable that someone is going to feel the court has got it wrong. it is tragic when you have a consequence of the kind that we have heard about in your film. i can't believe any court would have made orders that allowed that to happen, knowing

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