Children – mother’s ‘fixed’ but unfounded allegations of sexual abuse by father damaging to children – Proctor

In Syms [2021] FamCAFC 38 (26 March 2021) the Full Court (Aldridge, Watts and Austin JJ) heard an appeal where a mother unsuccessfully argued that her three children were at unacceptable risk of sexual abuse by their father.

The court found that the mother’s fixed but unfounded…