The applicant mother unilaterally suspended the respondent father's in-person access to their four-year-old daughter in March 2020, alleging that the father and his partner were physically and emotionally abusing the child.
The father brought a motion to reinstate his access.
The court found that while there had been a material change in circumstances, the allegations of abuse were not established on the evidence.
The court found the mother's extensive recordings of the child, the child's statements, and photographs of bruises to be of limited probative value and highly prejudicial.
The court reinstated the father's access substantially as ordered in the prior trial judgment, with additional terms prohibiting recording and directing further assessment of the child's behavioral and health needs.
