by Julie Doughty | May 13, 2021 | Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
UPDATE 17 JANUARY 2025: A new judgment on this issue has just been published by the Court of Appeal. This blog post will be updated shortly. The new case is Re X and Y [2025] EWCA Civ 2. It’s well known that adoption orders made in England and Wales cannot be...
by Julie Doughty | May 6, 2021 | Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
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. Basically, she is asking the Court of Appeal to say the...
by Julie Doughty | Apr 28, 2021 | Cases, FCReportingWatch, Legal blogging
I recently attended, as a legal blogger, a care hearing conducted in Wales by HHJ Gareth Jones. I’m not going to go into factual details of the case but will make some observations about process in virtual hearings from the point of view of a legal blogger, and about...
by Julie Doughty | Apr 22, 2021 | Cases, Court of Protection, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
This newly published judgment, Re P (Discharge of Party) [2021] EWCA Civ 512 is interesting because ‘It appears that this is the first case in which a special advocate has been instructed in the Civil Division of the Court of Appeal’ [para 5]. A special advocate is a...
by Julie Doughty | Apr 13, 2021 | Cases, Comment, FCReportingWatch
‘Yes’, according to new research from the Nuffield Family Justice Observatory (NFJO). The purpose and effectiveness of this type of court order is currently being considered by one of the innumerable sub-groups of the Public Law Working Group. Now, the...
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