The three judges involved in proceedings concerning Sara Sharif in the years before her death can be named following a Court of Appeal ruling.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.
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00:00The three judges involved in proceedings concerning Sarah Sharif in the last years before her death can be named following a Court of Appeal ruling.
00:10Judge Alison Rayside, Judge Peter Nathan and Judge Sally Williams were all involved in family court proceedings related to the 10-year-old between 2013 and 2019.
00:23The last three sets of proceedings saw Sarah placed in the home of her father, Irfan Sharif, and her stepmother, Banish Batur, who murdered her at the same address in Woking, Surrey in 2023 and was jailed for life last year.
00:38The press was previously barred from reporting the names of the judges and other professionals involved in the case.
00:44With the High Court ruling, they acted within the parameters that law and social work practice set for them.
00:50But the Court of Appeal ruled on January 24th that the media could name the judges at 10am on Friday in the interests of open justice, having heard that all three judges wanted to convey their profound shock, horror and sadness about what happened to Sarah Sharif.