UNB V Child Protector Case Report

Running head: UNB V CHILD PROTECTOR 1
UNB V Child Protector Case Report
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UNB V CHILD PROTECTOR 2
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Date/Time of Observations: 26 July 2018 between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m.
Court: Family Division of the High Court — HCF/Youth Court
Case Name: UNB V Child Protector (2018) SGHCF 10
Presiding Judge: Debbie Ong
Disputes Related to the Case: State intervention on children placed under custody.
Case Summary and Arguments
I visited the Family Division of the High Court —Youth Court division, on 26 July 2018
between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. In the course of my experience there, I witnessed a case brought
forth by a mother challenging the District Judge’s decision to grant Child Protective Service
(CPS’s) application. CPS had applied for care and protection orders for two children of divorced
parents (which included the appellant as the mom) under s 49 of the CYPA. The Mother resisted
the application. The Father did not contest the application, but took the view that state
intervention was appropriate. The mother made the following arguments:
First, she stated that the threshold required prior to state intervention had not been met as
in s 4 of the CYPA. Precisely, she cited the order given by DJ Singh granting her overnight
access and access during school and public holidays to be evidence of DJ’s belief that there were
no safety concerns. She also pointed out that the children had grown up in her home for a whole
decade (between 2004 and 2014).
In addition, she also argued that the CPS reports had unsuccessfully tabled a balanced
view of the relationship she had with the children because it majorly relied on the accounts of
professionals engaged by the father who ignored her account on the relationship she had with the