RE S (A CHILD) sub nom SS v (1) SA (2) FS (3) S (A CHILD) (2013)

A finding of fact of sexual assault in welfare proceedings was upheld in circumstances where the interview and preparation process for a child’s Achieving Best Evidence interviews was sufficiently robust so as to enable the recorded and written records to be taken as a source of reliable evidence and where the judge’s characterisation of the influences on the child was not too narrow a consideration of all the background material.