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Oh dear. Divorce brings out the worst in people. I saw it with my own ex husband too. Thankfully we had no hearings. Here the man has decided to cause as much trouble as he can. I am afraid it is very very likely he was making up being attacked the night before be we will never know.

His treatment of his daughter sounds dreadful. Why contest it if he wants a divorce anyway? Does it matter? My husband after I sent the draft divorce petition and he had made me take out the worst references to his violence then insisted he should divorce me not vice versa. I just gave in -what's the point in bothering. The children and I know how awful he was. The fact he could maintain he had divorceed me is fine - we still got divorced. It makes no iota of difference to the huge amount I had to pay him for his abuse (as it were, as a higher earner divorcing a lower earner man whom I only divorced because of how he treated us all). I suspect there may be quite a bit of this about - one person insisting they be the person who divorces the other not vice versa. In my case I didn't think it was worth arguing over although I don't accept he had grounds.

(I agree below that we should use HHJ Roberts each time and never just a judge's surname as a house style)