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Re A 2024. Led by Aiden Vine KC on behalf of a Local Authority in complex and long running case involving applications to discharge a final care order, application for Wardship, application for Deprivation of Liberty orders, applications for s.34 Contact orders and allegations of Local Authority failing in relation to a child with complex mental heath issues and dispute as to diagnosis.
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Re L 2024. Instructed for Local Authority on muti-day fact find on separate limb fractures and bruises to non-mobile infant. Required drafting of extensive chronology and cross reference between numerous professional records to establish the extent of differing accounts posed by the parties to differing professionals and establish the extent of parental collusion and culpability.
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Re C 2023. Led by Kate Branigan KC for the Local Authority in 12-day fact find before the High Court involving multiple injuries over an extensive timeline, including where the preliminary explanations had been accepted by initial treating clinicians as plausible. A complicating fact was that experts and treating hospitals were divided on the cause of injuries.
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Re B 2023. Led by John Vater KC directly instructed by elder children before s.9 Judge. A complex and unusual case involving police asserting public immunity of source evidence, resulting in disclosure arguments with redacted judgment being handed down and arguments as to Human Rights and Fair Trials being posed.
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Re L 2022. Conducted a 13-day fact find for the Local Authority before s.9 Judge with 2 parents and 4 intervenors. Both parents were represented by Kings Counsel and Juniors. Challenges included complex legal argument being mounted by parents as to the legal test for collusion and as to whether collusion between the parents had been proven by the Local Authority.
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Re C 2022. Conduct of long running matter involving multiple applications and hearings culminating in a 10 day final hearing before s.9 Judge. Hearings had included High Court out of hours applications for ‘TipStaff’ following child abduction, phone analysis applications and contested interim separation. Matter appealed to Court of Appeal by family with Tory instructed to draft response document for the Local Authority. The Court of Appeal dismissed the application by the family.
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Re E 2021. Representing a father on a multi-day final hearing charged with making indecent images. The Local Authority alleged child grooming, falsification of electronic and papers files and sexual risk. Required delicate management of a client who asserted he had personality disorders and management of concurrent criminal investigations.
Tory Putnam
Call 2005
Tory is a dual qualified Solicitor-Advocate and Barrister specialising in complex care proceedings and fact-finding hearings in private law proceedings.
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