A judge has warned that separated parents are overwhelming courts with demands to micro-manage their lives, asking for rulings on problems such as where a handover takes place or who keeps a child’s passport.
Venting his frustration in a judgment nine days ago, Stephen Wildblood QC, a Bristol family court judge, branded unnecessary litigation “an inappropriate use of limited court resources” when urgent cases relating to children taken into care were being held up.
The case he threw out concerned an “unnecessary and disproportionate” request for five years of a mother’s medical records. Exasperated at the court time that couples were demanding, he listed “similar requests for micro-management” in the past month: “i) At which junction of the M4 should a child be handed over
