Senior judge overturns previous ruling, saying matter is for the court to decide amid concern over use of unregulated psychologists

A mother accused of alienating her children from their father has won an appeal to overturn a decision by a district judge to instruct a psychological expert in her case.

The lower court had been wrong to make an order inviting the expert to undertake psychological assessments of the parents and two children and for doing so without giving proper reasons, according to a more senior judge.