Special Guardianship versus adoption
Ever since Re B-S, there has been a potential issue for the Courts to resolve – given that Re B-S talks about the test in leave to oppose being not about whether a parent might get the child back...
View ArticleAdoption rates in freefall
I’ve been asked if I would write about the story in the newspapers this week about adoption rates going down and the blame being placed on some high profile case law decisions. This is the first time...
View ArticleAdoption and American immigration
I have been waiting since Re B-S for one of these cases to come up, and it finally has. Where a family member is put forward to care for a child, and that family member lives in America, the net effect...
View ArticleThe Adoption statistics
The Government have published their statistics (there’s a time delay, so these are the stats up to Autumn 2014)...
View ArticleLocal Authority lawyers should grow a pair
This post contains 95 per cent of your Recommended Daily Allowance of Sarcasm and 119% of your Recommended Daily Allowance of Dopiness Well, it isn’t quite put like that, but it isn’t far off. I...
View ArticleCourt of Appeal criticise Judge for insufficient analysis of the placement...
In re P (A child) 2016 http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/Civ/2016/3.html The Court of Appeal conclude that a Judge who made a Placement Order (thus authorising a child to be placed for adoption)...
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