Kisses and cuddles not enough…
The BBC recently reported that two children were to be adopted ‘as kisses and cuddles [were] not enough‘. The use of a direct quotation and the inclusion of the judge’s name in the headline and...
View ArticleJust how close was 3-year-old ‘AJS’ to being adopted because of the unlawful...
Last week BBC News and the Guardian reported the important public interest story of a father’s unlawful immigration detention, that left his three-year-old unnecessarily in care and at risk of a plan...
View ArticleHuman Rights Court criticises adoption case from Norway
The case of Strand Lobben and others v. Norway 37282/13 raises issues about the human rights of birth mothers in adoption proceedings. In the context of all the discussions currently going on about...
View ArticleAnother Re W – a successful appeal against refusal for leave to oppose an...
In this unusual case, Re W (A child: leave to oppose adoption) [2020] EWCA (Civ) 16, the Court of Appeal has given birth parents leave to oppose an adoption order being made. The child is nearly three...
View ArticleCHALLENGING ADOPTION REVISITED: RE C AND REVOCATION OF PLACEMENT ORDERS
This is a guest post by Mark Senior. Mark was a Solicitor specialising in family law for 9 years before moving to the Bar in 2002. He is based in Liverpool at St Johns Buildings Chambers. He tweets as...
View ArticleFairness to birth parents in adoption hearings
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]...
View ArticleUndoing an adoption order
It’s well known that adoption orders made in England and Wales cannot be ‘unmade’. That is partly why they are sometimes described as extreme, draconian or ‘the last resort’ if made against birth...
View ArticleRe I-A: Court of Appeal considers adoption and the inherent jurisdiction
Last week, the Court of Appeal heard yet another case where a birth parent was trying to get an adoption order set aside. The three children in Re I-A are, unusually but very fortunately, all living...
View ArticleRe I-A: use of the inherent jurisdiction to try to set aside adoption orders
In June this year, the Court of Appeal heard an application by a mother that the court use its powers under the inherent jurisdiction to set aside adoption orders made in April 2020, in respect of...
View ArticleTwo new cases where parents try to stop adoptions
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...
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