H. Hunter Phillips

The appellant father appealed an order granting him limited, supervised access to his three-year-old son of one visit per year.

The application judge had restricted access due to the father's history of domestic violence, failure to exercise previous access, and the child's young age.

The Court of Appeal upheld the requirement for supervised access to establish a relationship but found one visit per year too restrictive.

The court varied the order to allow the father to exercise supervised access three times per year for a seven-day period each time.