“If the jigsaw metaphor is helpful at all, then, in my view, it is important to think of a pile of jigsaw pieces in which pieces from more than one jigsaw have been muddled up. There may be pieces which, on examination, do not fit the jigsaw under construction at all, but which require to be discarded or placed on one side.”
“There can be no doubt that A is a young woman who has a history of not telling the truth. She is a young woman who has been brought up within a dysfunctional household, with a mother who has been dishonest with a multiplicity of public bodies, and who has learned the power of making allegations. It is clear that she hoped that making the allegations would result in her mother providing her with the attention that she craved. Within these proceedings she threatened to make allegations against her father if he made her go to school. It is a dysfunctional way to obtain what she wants and is learned behaviour from her mother.”