LONDON, Ont. -- Ontario's highest court has upheld a local judge's decision and quashed an appeal by a child-welfare agency wanting to revive a protection order for three boys caught in a vicious divorce case.
But the Ontario Court of Appeal left it open for the cash-strapped Children's Aid Society of London and Middlesex to ask to appeal the $1.4-million legal tab slapped against it -- believed to be the largest ever levied against a child-welfare agency in Ontario -- after a mammoth trial that ran for 154 days.
The agency had made other headlines two years ago when it couldn't balance its books.
The trial lasted so long, ifrom October 2011 to May 2013, it caused major backlogs in family law cases in London, forcing the courts to prioritize child protection cases over divorce cases for months.
It was a nasty, mud-slinging affair that involved a mother found by the court to be manipulative and cunning, convincing child-welfare services her husband was an abusive monster. (more...)
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