Key legal question
Whether the mother was entitled to an expanded personal contact regime with the children during the proceedings
Extracted holding
The existing letter-based contact arrangement was sufficient; personal or expanded supervised visits were not warranted at this stage.
Extracted reasoning
Given the children’s trauma, their fear of renewed violence, the mother’s inability to reliably distance herself from the violent partner, and the risk of revealing the children’s whereabouts, a more extensive contact regime would endanger their welfare.