When serious injuries are medically suggestive of abusive head trauma, how should the court approach alternative explanations where the medical evidence cannot exclude an unusual accidental injury or unidentified mechanism? – Stephen Crispin in Ellana (A Child) (Fact-Finding: Head Injury), Re [2026] EWFC 272 (B)
The Family Court has declined to find that a 15-month-old child’s serious intracranial and spinal injuries were inflicted, holding that, despite shaking being the medically favoured explanation, the evidence considered…
