Re B (Children: Police Investigation) [2022] EWCA Civ 982

An appeal concerning an injunction made in the High Court prohibiting any person serving with the Metropolitan Police (‘MPS’) from interviewing two teenage children (‘A’ and ‘B’) without the ‘express order’ of the judge save for speaking to them ‘in order to determine whether they are at a real and immediate risk of being subjected to harm or ill-treatment and for the purpose of considering whether any immediate police or statutory powers should be exercised to avoid that risk’ [1]. Appeal allowed.