He took the SW's view as evidence by the sound of it, but that isn't a fair playing field - there has to be evidence on both sides.
DB plenty of people have done an appeal on their own. It's not as big as it sounds and it's a chance to have another hearing with a different Judge and have the last hearing overruled.
A guy on here last year was left with contact centre only (I think - or it might have been indirect only) based on a Cafcass officer saying that at a final hearing and he was self repping and out of his depth. I helped him with the appeal papers - I had never done them before and neither had he but we worked it out. He got his appeal and he now has a full child arrangements order. He posted on here not long ago.
DB plenty of people have done an appeal on their own. It's not as big as it sounds and it's a chance to have another hearing with a different Judge and have the last hearing overruled.
A guy on here last year was left with contact centre only (I think - or it might have been indirect only) based on a Cafcass officer saying that at a final hearing and he was self repping and out of his depth. I helped him with the appeal papers - I had never done them before and neither had he but we worked it out. He got his appeal and he now has a full child arrangements order. He posted on here not long ago.