The Office of the Children's Lawyer brought a motion to quash a summons served by the respondent mother on a former OCL investigator.
The investigator had prepared a custody and access report over ten years ago regarding the applicant father and his children from a previous relationship.
The OCL argued the evidence was irrelevant and raised confidentiality concerns.
The court declined to quash the summons entirely because the applicant father refused to admit the authenticity of the prior reports.
However, the court significantly limited the scope of the summons, requiring the investigator to testify only regarding the authenticity of the reports and any independent recollection of the father's parenting abilities at that time, without breaching the confidentiality of the other parties involved.
