Re A, B and C (Children: Perpetrator Finding) [2026] EWCA Civ 219  

Appeal by a mother against a finding in care proceedings that she had inflicted a fracture to her 15-week-old son’s arm. The Court of Appeal dismissed the appeal, holding that the judge had been entitled to prefer the father’s evidence notwithstanding the evidence of his propensity to anger and aggression, and that a judge who identifies a perpetrator on the balance of probabilities need not go on to consider a pool of perpetrators.