The judges who allowed Sara Sharif to remain in her father’s custody are to be named following a legal challenge mounted by the media which ...

The schoolgirl was found dead in Woking in August last year with at least 71 external injuries including bruises, burns and bite marks on her body.

The judge who handed custody of Sara Sharif to her father before he beat the 10-year-old to death can today be named as Judge Alison Raeside in a landmark victory for open justice.

Sara Sharif’s father Urfan Sharif ... ordered by Judge Raeside revealed concerns about her parents, mother Olga Domin and Urfan Sharif. They indicated “dirty conditions in the family home ...

A judge who allowed Sara Sharif to live with the father who brutally murdered her was previously criticised by a High Court judge over a “fundamentally flawed” hearing regarding another child.

They also showed that the authority first had contact with Urfan Sharif and Sara’s mother Olga Sharif in 2010 – more than two years before Sara was born – and had received “referrals ...

Three appeal judges ruled a week ago that the judges involved in historic family court proceedings concerning Sara could be ...

Judge Alison Raeside, Judge Peter Nathan and Judge Sally Williams were all involved in family court proceedings related to the 10-year-old between 2013 and 2019 ...

In October 2019, a social worker told a court they assessed that Sara Sharif's father and stepmother were "able to meet Sara and [a sibling's] needs for safety, stability, emotional warmth and ...