David Horne

CDC v H v H [2024] – Represented a father throughout care proceedings and a 7 day fact find hearing in respect of allegations of serious sexual abuse against one of his daughters throughout the majority of her childhood.

B v B [2023] – Represented a mother in a 5 day fact finding hearing concerning allegations against the father of sexual, physical and emotional abuse of the 5 year old child. All findings sought were made.

BMDC v B v B [2022] – Represented a father at an 11 day finding hearing involving the shaking of a 6 week old baby, causing significant, long-term injuries. The case involved significant amounts of complex medical evidence.

NCC v P v H [2021] – Represented the local authority in both a fact-find and final hearing in a matter in which the Court found that the father has shaken his young baby on two separate occasions. The case involved complex medical evidence and significant amounts of disclosure.

DMBC v T v B [2021] – Represented a father at a composite finding of fact and final hearing, involving allegations that the father had sexually abused his two young sons over a significant period of time.

DMBC v O v M v B v C [2020] – Represented an intervenor within proceedings in which the intervenor was subsequently found to have murdered a two year old child following a criminal trial.

DMBC v B v M [2020] – Represented a father in a case involving a non-subject child making allegations of serious sexual abuse from several years prior to the complaint being made.

NCC v H [2019] – Represented the respondent local authority before the Court of Appeal regarding an appeal against final care and placement orders being made.

NCC v H v H v P [2019] – Representing the sister and her partner of a child in which the child’s father had killed the mother in the presence of the child. The case involved the question of with whom the child should now live, and the ongoing role of other family members. The matter was heard before Mr Justice Keehan.

S v A [2018] – Representing a father at a 3-day finding-of-fact hearing. The mother had made allegations of sexual, physical, emotional and financial abuse. No findings were made against the father.

NCC v P v P [2017] – Represented the local authority on a 4-day finding-of-fact hearing, and thereafter in final care proceedings. Following the finding-of-fact hearing, the father was found to have raped his own daughter and encouraged her to perform sexual acts on other children. Final care and placements order were made in favour of the local authority at the conclusion of proceedings.

SCC v H v P [2017] – Represented a mother at a final hearing on issues concerning Slovakian culture and the ability to provide care for a child with an illness which medical professionals had not been able to diagnose.

DMBC v S v S [2017] – Led by Nkumbe Ekaney QC on 3-day case involving significant disclosure from Scotland, including concerns regarding the practice of satanic rituals and child abuse.

SCC v D v A [2016] – Represented the mother in a 7-day contested final hearing involving substantial cross-examination of a psychiatrist, an independent social worker, and foster carers, and involving issues as to the appropriateness of cessation of contact during the final hearing itself.

SCC v B v L [2016] – Represented the child in a 5-day finding-of-fact hearing involving allegations of serious sexual abuse perpetrated by the father against his own daughter. Significant findings were made following the hearing.