Jenkins v. Winchester Department of Social Services

How courts have described this case

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• “[T]he statutory definitions of an abused or neglected child do not require proof of actual harm or impairment having been experienced by the child.”
• “[E]rror which does not injuriously affect the interest of the party complaining is not reversible.”
• “Evidence is relevant if it has any logical tendency, however slight, to prove a fact in issue”
• “[Where] we do not have the benefit of a transcript of the proceedings, we can give credence only to what is contained in the Written Statement prepared by the trial judge.”
• “The burden is upon the appellant to provide us with a record which substantiates the claim of error.” (citation omitted). Further, we cannot hold, in light of the Supreme Court’s recent decision in Wintergreen Partners, Inc. v. McGuireWoods LLP, 280 Va. 374, 698 S.E.2d 913 (2010

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).