‘A Family Court judge has given guidance on care cases where a parent has a learning disability, after deciding that a 17-month-old boy known as Child H should be the subject of a care order pending adoption because of his parents’ inability to care for him.’
Local Government Lawyer, 7th April 2022
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘The Court of Appeal has overturned a decision to make a placement order for an 18-month-old boy after finding that the judicial analysis “fell significantly short”.’
Local Government Lawyer, 31st March 2022
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘This post is about two recent judgments with a similar theme – attempts by birth parents to stop an adoption going through, on the legal basis of caselaw interpretation of the Adoption and Children Act 2002 that their circumstances had changed and that the original welfare decision and plan therefore need reconsidering. One, Re D, is a decision on leave to apply to revoke placement orders and the second, Re A and B, is a decision on opposing adoption orders. This means that the children in Re D are not yet living with prospective adopters, although the children in Re A and B are.’
Transparency Project, 20th March 2022
Source: www.transparencyproject.org.uk
‘A local authority has failed to persuade the Court of Appeal that a judge’s refusal of its applications for placement orders in respect of children aged two and almost four was irrational.’
Local Government Lawyer, 10th November 2021
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘A disputed adoption case has highlighted the problems of reliance on a Mackenzie Friend rather than a solicitor in proceedings, a Family Division judge has suggested.’
Local Government Lawyer, 22nd October 2021
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘Every case is fact specific but what makes cases like this interesting is seeing what it was that made the Judge’s decision fall on the opposite side of the line to the professionals when the decision is said to be “finely balanced” and “on a knife edge”.’
Transparency Project, 7th September 2021
Source: www.transparencyproject.org.uk
‘The Court of Appeal recently heard an appeal against an order dismissing an application by the birth mother of three children to revoke an adoption order made in respect of those children. Fran Massarella looks at the outcome.’
Local Government Lawyer, 3rd September 2021
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘Rebecca Cross looks at a Court of Appeal ruling in a case where the ADM [agency decision maker] failed to carry out their duties properly.’
Local Government Lawyer, 13th August 2021
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘The Court of Appeal has allowed an appeal by a council over a judge’s order that effectively rejected the local authority’s care plan for adoption for an 18-month-old child (A).’
Local Government Lawyer, 13th July 2021
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘Judges are to investigate the use of urgent hearings in proceedings involving babies, after a study found that 85% of mothers in cases involving newborns being taken into care were given less than seven days’ formal notice.’
Law Society's Gazette, 4th June 2021
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘One in six mothers involved in care proceedings over the last year were given just a day’s notice of a court hearing to decide whether their newborn child would be taken into care, according to research. The vast majority of such women in England and Wales receive less than one week’s notice, new analysis shows.’
The Independent, 5th June 2021
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘Care order applications are usually made when social workers decide a mother is unable to look after her child on her own. The baby will probably go into foster care and it may be adopted.’
BBC News, 4th June 2021
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The Family Court has ruled that in co-parenting families one parent may adopt a child born to the other even if they are no longer partners.’
Local Government Lawyer, 21st May 2021
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘This case was an application by a birth mother for permission to appeal against a decision in the High Court that had refused her leave to apply to oppose an adoption order – Re S (A Child) [2021] EWCA Civ 605.’
Transparency Project, 6th May 2021
Source: www.transparencyproject.org.uk
‘A judge in the Family Division of the High Court has revoked adoption orders for an 18 year old (A) and a 16 year old (B) after concluding that there were “compelling highly exceptional and particular circumstances” that supported such a step.’
Local Government Lawyer, 5th May 2021
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘A Family Court judge has issued a ruling on whether, within public law proceedings, there was any obligation on a local authority to assess members of the biological/birth family of the mother of the subject infant child, where the mother herself was adopted as a child and raised by adoptive parents.’
Local Government Lawyer, 12th April 2021
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘A magistrate and NHS trust board member who was dismissed over his views – based on his beliefs as a Christian – about the appropriateness of the adoption of a child by a same-sex couple, has lost two cases in the Court of Appeal.’
Local Government Lawyer, 4th March 2021
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘This is a short blog to introduce the people and issues, and explain the lead up, ahead of the live-streamed appeal in M (A Child) tomorrow. It aims to give non lawyers a bit of orientation and some links when tuning in to the court of appeal proceedings.’
Transparency Project, 3rd March 2021
Source: www.transparencyproject.org.uk
‘Issue #43 of Spire Barristers’ Family Law Newsletter: edited by Connie Purdy and Taz Irshad; news and Case Reviews by Francesca Massarella. Francesca is due to begin pupillage at Spire Barristers in September 2021.’
Spire Barristers, 16th February 2021
Source: spirebarristers.co.uk
‘T & R involved an appeal against a decision to refuse to approve a plan of adoption in respect of two children, T (a 3 year old boy) and R (a 2 year old girl) and accordingly, refuse to make placement orders.’
Transparency Project, 15th February 2021
Source: www.transparencyproject.org.uk
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