UK mother separated from children for years has ‘draconian’ order overturned

Gill’s recommendations included that Erin* had turned her daughter and son against their father and should be banned from seeing them. Photograph: AlexLinch/Getty Images/iStockphoto

A mother who did not see her children for nearly six years after they were taken away by the family courts has been reunited with her son after the flawed evidence used in her case was overturned.

An assessment by an unregulated psychologist led to “extraordinary” and “draconian” orders that effectively terminated her relationship with her children, lawyers told the high court.