Court of Appeal
“In contentious adoption cases, where the court was dispensing with parental consent, the question of any contact between the children and their family members was for the court and not the local authority to resolve.”
The Times, 29th May 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
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S-H v Kingston upon Hull City Council and Another
Court of Appeal
“In order to decide whether to grant leave to a parent to apply for revocation of an order placing a child for adoption, the correct test to be applied by the court was whether, in all the circumstances, including the parents’ prospects of securing revocation and the child’s interests, leave should be given.”
The Times, 28th May 2008
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SB v A County Council [2008] EWCA Civ 535; [2008] WLR (D) 160
“A judge considering dispensing with parental consent to adoption had to focus on the child’s welfare ‘throughout his life’, to emphasise that adoption, unlike other forms of order, was something with lifelong implications.”
WLR Daily, 21st May 2008
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
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S-H v Kingston upon Hull City Council and another [2008] EWCA Civ 493; [2008] WLR (D) 154
“When deciding whether to grant leave to a parent to apply for revocation of an order placing a child for adoption, the court should ask itself the question whether, in all the circumstances, including the parent’s prospect of success in securing revocation and the child’s interests, leave should be given.”
WLR Daily, 16th May 2008
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
Please note once a case has been fully reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.
C v East Sussex County Council (Adoption)
Court of Appeal
“While Parliament had given social workers wide powers, which they must not abuse, they had to remember that the court was the ultimate arbiter of what was in the best interests of a child.”
The Times, 9th May 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Please note the Times Law Reports are only available free on Times online for 21 days from the date of publication.
“Two senior judges have strongly criticised a local authority that forced through the adoption of a baby girl against the wishes of her father.”
The Times, 2nd May 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“A father has been jailed for helping his pregnant wife flee abroad because she was terrified that social services would take her baby.”
Daily Telegraph, 8th February 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A consultation on the government’s strategy for developing the fees system in the civil and family courts of England and Wales. The consultation sets out proposals to:
Public Law Family Fees Consultation Paper (PDF)
Questionnaire (Word)
Ministry of Justice, 19th December 2007
Source: www.justice.gov.uk
In re C (A child)(Adoption: Local authority duty)
Court of Appeal
“There was no duty on a local authority to make inquiries of a child’s extended family or father about the possibility of their providing long-term care where mother wished to place the child for adoption.”
The Times, 5th December 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
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“Twenty babies born to British surrogate mothers have been taken abroad unlawfully by the foreign couples who commissioned them because of an oversight by British courts, it emerged yesterday.”
The Guardian, 5th December 2007
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
In re C (A Child)(Adoption: Local Authority’s Duty) [2007] EWCA Civ 1206
“S 1 of the Adoption and Children Act 2002 did not impose a duty on the local authority to make inquiries of a child’s extended family or father about the possibility of their providing long-term care in circumstances where the child had been conceived as a result of a fleeting relationship and the mother wished to place the child for adoption.”
WLR Daily, 26th November 2007
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
Please note: once a case has been fully reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.
“A mother’s decision to put a child conceived during a one-night stand up for adoption has turned into a legal dilemma over parental rights and responsibilities.”
The Guardian, 8th November 2007
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“An ex-magistrate who says he was forced to resign because he would not place children for adoption with gay couples has lost his appeal.”
BBC News, 31st October 2007
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A Christian magistrate was forced to resign because he refused to place children for adoption with gay couples, an employment appeal tribunal was told yesterday.”
The Times, 23rd October 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“A Christian magistrate who claims that he had to quit the bench because he objects to adoption by gay couples is taking the Government to court today.”
Daily Telegraph, 22nd October 2007
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“One of the longest child custody cases in British legal history is to return to the high court as an infertile African couple make a new attempt to recover the child they claim as their ‘miracle’ baby.”
The Guardian, 15th September 2007
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Record numbers of young children are being taken from their parents and adopted – sometimes unjustly – to meet government targets, it is claimed today.”
The Times, 24th August 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“The woman at the centre of a battle with social services over the future of her unborn baby will not be able to claim an exemption from the UK’s Data Protection Act, a legal expert has warned.”
OUT-LAW.com, 22nd August 2007
Source: www.out-law.com
“A heavily pregnant woman is at the centre of an extraordinary legal battle with social workers after she secretly recorded them threatening to take away her newborn baby.”
Daily Telegraph, 19th August 2007
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Family courts are refusing to tell mothers why their babies are being taken away and put up for forced adoption.”
Daily Telegraph, 5th August 2007
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
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