High Court judge brands street ban order 'Kafkaesque'

A High Court judge has suggested that a case in which a father of six was barred from entering the street where he lived as a result of legal proceedings he knew nothing of had Kafkaesque overtones.

Mr Justice Peter Jackson said the man at the centre of the family court litigation, whom he named only as Mr R, could have been forgiven for feeling like Josef K – the protagonist in Franz Kafka’s 1925 novel The Trial.