Cases Archive

Adoption – Advertisement – Court permission – Application before final hearing – Guidelines and principles

Children are not to be removed from parents under an interim care order unless it was in the interests of their safety and a high standard had to be met and applied

Father’s application for permission to appeal against the decision of a circuit judge, who refused to permit him to make an application for the implementation of an order for indirect contact with the children during the currency of an order made by a different judge under section 91(14) of the Children Act 1989. He also sought an order that NYAS (National Youth Advocacy Service) be appointed as the children’s Guardian. Application refused.

Ancillary relief – Dealing with third party interests – Whether necessary to bring separate proceedings under the Partnership Act 1980 and the Trusts of Land and Appointment of Trustees Act 1996

Adoption — Placement order application — Local authority acting as adoption agency — Approval by appointed officer to precede application for placement order.

Issue estoppel; Compromise of possession proceedings on terms that inferred the recognition by the landlord of the tenant’s statutory protection. The landlord was estopped from contesting the issue concerning the tenant’s statutory protection as at the date of the compromise in subsequent proceedings.

Contact – Appropriateness of s 91(14) order – Exercise of district judge’s discretion

Successful appeal to the Court of Appeal on behalf of a father seeking contact that the judge had not given him a fair hearing