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The Honourable Mr Justice Cobb: Introduction 1. This is an appeal brought by a father (\u2018F\u2019) against a determination of fact made by Her Honour Judge Scully (hereafter \u201cthe Judge\u201d), at the conclusion of a fact-finding hearing which she conducted, in Children Act 1989 private law proceedings, in May 2019. The proceedings concern the parties\u2019 two-year old child, N. 2. By his appeal, F challenges the following judicial finding: \u201cOn [date] 2016, at the father\u2019s property, an act of sexual intercourse commenced between the parties, to which they were both in agreement. At some point during intercourse, the mother changed her mind, whether because of discomfort or the fear of ejaculation or both. The mother told the father to stop and not to ejaculate inside of her. I find that he did not do so, and by then the sexual act had ceased to be consensual. In failing to stop and failing to withdraw before ejaculation against her wishes, by the definition in the Act, the father perpetrated a rape upon the mother.\u201d The \u201cAct\u201d referred to in the final sentence of the Judge\u2019s finding above is a reference to the Sexual Offences Act 2003. 3. By the Appellant\u2019s Notice, F presents altogether nine Grounds of Appeal, which in combination seek to challenge the finding that he \u201craped\u201d the mother. 4. Permission to appeal was granted, on the papers, by Cohen J on 29 October 2019; he considered that F\u2019s case was arguable, reasoning his decision thus: \u201c\u2026 (2) The Judge\u2019s essential finding is that the [F] ejaculated whilst having consensual intercourse with [M] when he knew that she did not want him to ejaculate as she was not taking contraceptive precautions. He thereby raped her. (3) [F]s evidence is that he intended to withdraw in time but misjudged things. The Judge made no finding that this was other than accidental. (4) Sections 1 and 79(2) of the Sexual Offences Act 2003 define rape but commentary in Archbold at para.20.23 is suggestive that rape only occurs in such situations when the man intends to ejaculate inside the woman despite her objection. \u2026\u201d I point up at this stage because it is important (I return to this at [17] below) that, contrary to Cohen J\u2019s reprise of the \u201cessential finding\u201d in his point (2) above, at the time the father ejaculated, the intercourse had on the Judge\u2019s finding \u201cceased to be consensual\u201d. 5. F\u2019s application for permission to appeal was, as it happens, issued out of time (FPR 2010 rule 30.4(2)). Although Cohen J did not explicitly grant F permission to appeal out of time, I have been prepared to hear the appeal; I understand that F had experienced some difficulties in obtaining the judgment transcript before he could finalise his appeal documents. 6. F has presented his argument on appeal in person, and has done so with care and clarity. Ms Brissenden, who conducted the hearing before the Judge on behalf of M, has appeared again on this appeal on her behalf. The fact-finding hearing 7. The fact-finding hearing conducted by HHJ Scully was itself a re-hearing, following a successful appeal by the mother against determinations made by a district judge in the Family Court sitting at Newcastle, itself following a fact-finding hearing. For the purposes of the hearing under review now, the Judge heard evidence from the parties themselves; she had read an extensive print-out of the sequence of text and WhatsApp messages passing between the parties over many months; she had viewed the Achieving Best Evidence interview of M, and she had listened to the audio recording of the police interview of F. She had reviewed the police disclosure, although she described this as \u201cpoor and \u2026 incomplete\u201d. 8. The fact-finding hearing was set up as a necessary prelude to a welfare determination in the context of F\u2019s application for a Child Arrangements (\u2018spend time with\u2019) Order (section 8 Children Act 1989). The specific issue of fact to be determined was whether the act of sexual intercourse between F and M in 2016 had been an assault; integral to this question was whether the sexual act had been consensual or not. The child who is the subject of the proceedings was born as a result of the act of sexual intercourse which was at the centre of the Judge\u2019s finding. 9. The ultimate issue before the Family Court in this case will be the future contact arrangements for F and the child, N, in N\u2019s best interests. Given the allegation in this case, there was clearly an issue as to whether F would be likely to provide safe parenting to N. 10. Let me say at once that I am satisfied that it was entirely proper for F to have launched his appeal against the fact-finding outcome at this stage rather than waiting for a final order in the Children Act 1989 proceedings; the finding under challenge directly \u201cconcern[s] the issue upon which the determination of the whole case ultimately turns\u201d: see the judgment of Macur LJ at [21] in Re M [2013] EWCA Civ 1170 andDame Elizabeth Butler Sloss P in Re B (A Child) (Split Hearings: Jurisdiction) [2000] 1 FCR 297, [2000] 1 FLR 334, CA. Background facts 11. The outline facts can be collected from the judgment, and I summarise them briefly here. The mother met the father at a fast-food outlet in Newcastle, where he worked. In the days which followed their meeting they exchanged text (SMS) and WhatsApp messages. F invited M to his home for a meal. Text exchanges at the time suggested that this may develop into a \u201csex session\u201d. M indeed went to F\u2019s home as arranged. F cooked a meal. M ate little. It is common ground that after the meal F and M had sexual intercourse. 12. M\u2019s case before the Judge was that after a short time engaged in the sexual act, she told F that she did not want to continue; the Judge recorded that the mother had said \u201cstop, stop, stop, stop\u201d, and later (when he continued undeterred) that she did not want him to ejaculate inside her. F, for his part, denied that M had ever asked him to \u2018stop\u2019 while engaged in sex; his case is that prior to the initiation of sexual intercourse they had agreed that he would not ejaculate inside her vagina, but that otherwise M said nothing during the act of sex. It is of course accepted that F did ejaculate inside M\u2019s vagina. 13. M\u2019s case was that the couple went on to engage in penetrative sex (though not to orgasm) at least once or possibly twice more; the mother\u2019s case was that it was \u201cconsensual in that she had not said no, as she did not see that there was any point\u201d (per judgment). Curiously, F denies that the parties had sexual intercourse more than once. 14. Following the mother\u2019s visit to the father, the couple continued to contact each other by SMS \/ WhatsApp. The Judge reviewed those messages in her judgment, noting that on the same day as the sexual encounter there was a message from M to F, which reads; \u201cthe fact that I asked you to stop several times and you didn\u2019t listen when I said \u2018don\u2019t come inside me\u2019\u201d. Later text messaging includes M saying \u201cI told you I didn\u2019t want to; I told you to stop; I told you not to come in me\u2026\u201d, and shortly after N was born \u201cwhen a girl says \u2018no, stop\u2019 don\u2019t do something, you should respect her, not do what you did\u2026\u201d. Other messaging between the parties contained a range of discussions focusing on practical and domestic arrangements for the child, financial maintenance, and contact. 15. It should be noted that F has not been charged with any offence arising from the events surrounding the parties\u2019 sexual encounter. The Arguments on appeal 16. F contends that the finding of rape is unsound and should be set aside. He complains that the Judge had failed to consider adequately or at all the inconsistencies in M\u2019s accounts of the events in question (when comparing her accounts to the court and in the Achieving Best Evidence interview), and in particular the oddity of her case (which as I say he denies) that they had gone on to further sexual activity after the alleged rape. He submitted to me in oral argument at this appeal hearing that M\u2019s case \u201cdoes not add up\u201d. F\u2019s case was and is that M had consented throughout the sexual intercourse; he maintained before the Judge that ejaculating inside the mother was \u201can accident\u201d and complains that the Judge made no determination of whether he had accidentally or intentionally ejaculated inside the mother. Specifically, in this regard he submitted (both in writing and orally at the appeal), reliant I believe on the comment of Cohen J from the order granting permission: \u201cBy virtue of the Sexual Offences Act 2013 (sic.) by which [the Judge] based her judgment on (sic.), ejaculation could never translate to a rape.\u201d 17. Ms Brissenden contends that the finding is unassailable. She contends that the Judge has considered all relevant matters and that she was entitled on the evidence to reach the finding that F had \u201craped\u201d M. Ms Brissenden argues that the Judge\u2019s clear finding that M had told F to \u201cstop\u201d part-way through sexual intercourse materially converted the consensual activity into non-consensual activity; she relied on the fact that rape is defined as the intentional penetration of the vagina without consent (and where the person does not reasonably believe that the other consents) and that, importantly, \u201cpenetration is a continuing act from entry to withdrawal\u201d(section 79(2) Sexual Offences Act 2003). She submits that the evidence concerning F\u2019s ejaculation was not in fact relevant to the finding of rape, and that in granting permission to appeal, Cohen J must have misread or misinterpreted the Judge\u2019s judgment in this regard; she points out that Cohen J had apparently read the judgment as indicating that at the point of ejaculation the sexual activity was otherwise \u2018consensual\u2019 whereas the Judge\u2019s conclusion was that at that time, the sexual activity had \u201cceased to be consensual\u201d (see [2] above). Discussion 18. Without, I believe, diminishing the scope or force of the F\u2019s arguments, I distil F\u2019s grounds of appeal into two essential complaints: i) That the Judge was wrong to find as a fact on the evidence that the sexual intercourse was other than consensual; her finding was contrary to the weight of the evidence and fails to reflect the inconsistencies in M\u2019s accounts; ii) That the Judge was wrong to describe the act as \u2018rape\u2019 because F had only accidentally, not intentionally, ejaculated inside M\u2019s vagina. I address these points discretely below. Appeal against the finding of fact 19. Appeals against findings of fact are notoriously difficult. As an appellate court I would only be able to say that the Judge who has conducted a fact-finding exercise had erred materially if the answer was \u201cdemonstrably contrary to the weight of the evidence\u201d or the \u201cdecision-making process can be identified as being plainly defective so that it can be said that the findings in question are unsafe\u201d (see Mostyn J at NG v SG (Appeal: Non-Disclosure) [2012] 1 FLR 1211). 20. Moreover, the fact-finding Judge here has had a considerable advantage over me in seeing and hearing these parties give their evidence: see Piglowska v Piglowski [1999] UKHL 27, [1999] 3 All ER 632, [1999] 1 WLR 1630, and Biogen Inc v Medeva plc [1997] RPC 1, discussed further in Re A (Children) [2015] EWCA Civ 1254 (see in particular Lewison LJ at [37-40]). It is apparent from the judgment that the Judge plainly formed mixed views of the reliability and truthfulness of both parties, which she properly set out in her judgment and apparently weighed in reaching her final conclusion. 21. In this regard, it is notable that the Judge broadly accepted, as F contends in this appeal, that in some respects M had been an unsatisfactory witness; the Judge explicitly records \u201cI am unable to agree that she has been entirely honest and frank with the court or indeed with the police\u201d. The Judge rejected M\u2019s evidence about when she first knew what rape was (i.e. more than a year after this incident; M had said that she had previously assumed that rape was always associated with threats or violence). The Judge recognised that she found aspects of M\u2019s evidence difficult to reconcile, and highlighted its various internal inconsistencies. The Judge found that it was surprising that M had alleged, somewhat against her own interests, that there had been a second or third sexual act (i.e. after the rape) which F denied. The Judge fairly recorded that \u201c[M] really has nothing to gain by admitting that there was a second sexual event\u201d and recorded that in admitting this further event, in fact it somewhat \u201cadds to her credibility\u201d. 22. The Judge concluded that the father, too, was not telling the truth in his account of the incident that day, and in other respects his evidence was \u201cconfusing\u201d. 23. These important points were plainly weighed in the balance in reaching her final determination. The Judge had earlier given herself an appropriate direction under R v Lucas; R v Middleton [1981] QB 720. The Judge also directed herself appropriately as to the burden and standard of proof. 24. I am satisfied that the Judge carefully evaluated the evidence laid before her. The judgment is detailed and thorough. Having focused on the evidence specific to the act of sexual intercourse, the Judge analysed thoroughly the contextual evidence, including the communications between the parties, for some indicators of the truth. The Judge was, it appears, particularly struck by the consistency of M\u2019s repeated references over a period of time (in SMS\/WhatsApp messages) to the fact that she had pleaded with F to \u2018stop\u2019 when they were engaged in sexual intercourse. She was equally unimpressed with F\u2019s denial of this. While acknowledging that \u201cthe Court will never know precisely what took place in [F]s bedroom on [date], only the parents know that\u201d, she reached conclusions which, in my judgment, corresponded with a strong consistent strand of the evidence. The Judge was wrong to describe the act as \u2018rape\u2019 25. The crucial part of the finding under challenge is this sentence: \u201cIn failing to stop and failing to withdraw before ejaculation against her wishes, by the definition in the Act, the father perpetrated a rape upon the mother.\u201d The finding is, arguably, slightly unfortunately worded. Inadvertently the Judge may have given the impression that she was relying on the fact that F ejaculated inside M\u2019s vagina as part of the proof of rape. This, it appears, caused Cohen J, when considering the grounds of appeal, to draw attention to an editorial note from Archbold\u2019s Criminal Pleading Evidence and Practice 2020, in the context of section 74 of the Sexual Offences Act 2003 (\u201ca person consents if he agrees by choice, and has the freedom and capacity to make that choice\u201d), which reads as follows: \u201c\u2026 the \u201cfreedom\u201d to make any particular choice must be approached in a broad common sense way; where, therefore, a woman consents to penetration on the clear understanding that the man will not ejaculate within her vagina, if, before penetration begins, the man has made up his mind that he will ejaculate before withdrawal, or even, because \u201cpenetration is a continuing act from entry to withdrawal\u201d (section 79(2)), decides, after penetration has commenced, that he will not withdraw before ejaculation, just because he deems the woman subservient to his control, she will have been deprived of choice relating to the crucial feature on which her original consent was based, and her consent will accordingly be negated.\u201d 26. As earlier indicated (see [16] above) F has adopted this argument at the hearing of the appeal before me. 27. On my reading of the relevant annotation (reproduced in [25] above), the woman\u2019s consent will be negated if her consent to sexual intercourse has been conditional on there being no ejaculation and the man has made up his mind either before, or during the act of penetration, to ejaculate inside the woman. In this case, the Judge\u2019s conclusion that M had been raped did not, however, depend upon a finding that the M had given conditional consent to penetration (i.e. \u201con the clear understanding that the man will not ejaculate within her vagina\u201d but that F had made up his mind to do so). The Judge\u2019s conclusion was founded on the fact that part-way through the sexual act, M ceased to consent to the act (\u2018stop, stop\u2026\u2019) and had made this known to F by requesting that he \u2018stop\u2019. It is therefore not material to her finding of rape that there had been any discussion about ejaculation before the act of sexual intercourse (if there had been), nor that F had in fact ejaculated inside M\u2019s vagina. In short, as soon as M had withdrawn her consent to the sexual intercourse during the act, F\u2019s continued penetration of her became a serious sexual assault, which in the criminal law would, within the meaning of the Sexual Offences Act 2003, be rape. 28. The Judge had, at an early part of the judgment, properly recognised the difference between the role of a family court and that of a criminal court; she had nonetheless looked across at the statutory definitions of the offence of rape under the Sexual Offences Act 2003 in assisting her to form or test her conclusion (specifically section 1, section 74, and specifically section 79(2)). The issue of consent, one of the necessary ingredients in determination of the offence, was \u2013 at the permission to appeal stage \u2013 given further prominence by Cohen J. This was in turn picked up and repeated by F in his skeleton argument and in oral argument before me, and he, like Cohen J drew attention to the editor\u2019s narrative note from Archbold (see [25] above). 29. There is a risk in a case such as this, where the alleged conduct at the heart of the factfinding enquiry is, or could be, of a criminal nature, for the family court to become too distracted by criminal law concepts. Although the family court may be tempted to consider the ingredients of an offence, and any defence available, when considering conduct which may also represent an offence, it is not of course directly concerned with the prosecution of crime. On the contrary: \u201cIn family proceedings, the outcome of a factfinding hearing will normally be a narrative account of what the court has determined (on the balance of probabilities) has happened in the lives of a number of people and, often, over a significant period of time. The primary purpose of the family process is to determine, as best that may be done, what has gone on in the past, so that that knowledge may inform the ultimate welfare evaluation where the court will choose which option is best for a child with the court's eyes open to such risks as the factual determination may have established.\u201d Re R [2018] EWCA Civ 198 at [62] Quite irrespective, therefore, of whether F has committed the offence of \u2018rape\u2019 or is otherwise criminally culpable, there is a range of reasons why the circumstances of N\u2019s conception may ultimately be relevant to future child arrangements. Specifically, it was regarded at an earlier case management hearing (and I agree with this direction) that it would be important for there to be a determination of whether F\u2019s conduct towards M in the sexual act by which N was conceived was \u2018violent or abusive\u2019, and in turn whether that conduct would be likely to be relevant in deciding whether to make a child arrangements order (see PD12J FPR 2010, para.4, para.5, and see further para.7 [i.e. does the statutory presumption apply having regard to any incident of domestic abuse?]). 30. In this regard, it may be a timely opportunity to revisit what the Court of Appeal said in Re R [2018] EWCA Civ 198. This was a case in which all parties before the court readily accepted that the structure and substance of criminal law should not be applied in the Family Court, a view with which the majority of the Court of Appeal agreed. McFarlane LJ said at [65-67]: \u201c[65] \u2026 criminal law concepts, such as the elements needed to establish guilt of a particular crime or a defence, have neither relevance nor function within a process of factfinding in the Family Court. Given the wider range of evidence that is admissible in family proceedings and, importantly, the lower standard of proof, it is at best meaningless for the Family Court to make a finding of 'murder' or 'manslaughter' or 'unlawful killing'. \u2026 [66]. Looked at from another angle, if the Family Court were required to deploy the criminal law directly into its analysis of the evidence at a fact-finding hearing such as this, the potential for the process to become unnecessarily bogged down in legal technicality is also plain to see. In the present case, the judge's detailed self-direction on the law of self-defence, and the resulting appeal asserting that it was misapplied, together with Miss Venters' late but sound observations about the statutory defence of 'loss of selfcontrol', are but two examples of the manner in which proceedings could easily become over-complicated and side-tracked from the central task of simply deciding what has happened and what is the best future course for a child. It is also likely that the judges chosen to sit on such cases in the Family Court would inevitably need to be competent to sit in the criminal jurisdiction. [67] \u2026 it is fundamentally wrong for the Family Court to be drawn into an analysis of factual evidence in proceedings relating to the welfare of children based upon criminal law principles and concepts. As my Lord, Hickinbottom LJ, observed during submissions, 'what matters in a fact-finding hearing are the findings of fact'. Whilst it may not infrequently be the case that the Family Court may be called upon to re-hear evidence that has already been considered in the different context of a criminal prosecution, that evidence comes to the court simply as evidence and it falls to be evaluated, in accordance with the civil standard of proof, and set against whatever other evidence there may be (whether heard by the criminal court or not) for the sole purpose of determining the relevant facts.\u201d Conclusion 31. Having heard, read and considered the arguments on this appeal carefully, I am satisfied that i) The Judge\u2019s finding which I have set out at [2] above was not \u201cdemonstrably contrary to the weight of the evidence\u201d (see [19] above); on the contrary, it seems to me that the Judge was amply entitled on the evidence to reach the conclusion that the sexual intercourse between M and F in 2016 became nonconsensual and therefore a serious sexual assault; ii) There is nothing in the Judge\u2019s decision-making process which can be identified as \u201cplainly defective so that it can be said that the findings in question are unsafe\u201d (see [19] above); indeed, I am satisfied that the Judge appropriately reviewed all of the available material, and faithfully recorded in her judgment all of the points for and against her ultimate conclusion; iii) It was in fact immaterial to the Judge\u2019s conclusion, or the identification of potential future risk, whether F had or had not ejaculated inside M\u2019s vagina, given that M had objected to F\u2019s continued penetration of her; F\u2019s focus on that issue in the appeal was in my judgment misplaced; iv) F had perpetrated a serious sexual assault on M. While there are powerful reasons why in the family court the Judge\u2019s description of events and behaviour should not strongly adhere to criminal law concepts and language (see [29]\/[30] above), F has failed in this appeal to persuade me that the judge was wrong to refer to the assault, by reference to the Sexual Offences Act 2003, as \u2018rape\u2019. 32. In the circumstances, the appeal must be dismissed. 33. That is my judgment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The Honourable Mr Justice Cobb: Introduction 1. This is an appeal brought by a father (\u2018F\u2019) against a determination of fact made by Her Honour Judge Scully (hereafter \u201cthe Judge\u201d), at the conclusion of a fact-finding hearing which she conducted, in Children Act 1989 private law proceedings, in May 2019. 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