Charles McCain and Andrew Pike successfully represent parents alleged to have inflicted bilateral skull fractures to their baby.

Charles McCain and Andrew Pike have successfully represented parents alleged to have inflicted bilateral skull fractures to their baby. Following a fact-finding hearing, the Court found that the injuries were sustained accidentally as the result of a low-level fall from the father’s arms onto a laminate floor, and the children were returned to the care of the parents.

The injured child had sustained biparietal skull vault fractures, one of which was complex, which did not approximate at the sagittal suture and were alleged to have been caused by two separate impacts. The Court was required to consider a competing hypothesis that the atypical geographical separation of the fractures was explained by a secondary fracture having been sustained away from a single point of impact. The Court was also required to consider the recent, and little known, research by O’Hara et al in relation to bilateral skull fractures in infancy.

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