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Undoing an adoption order
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...
New ‘Parents Promise’ Initiative launches
More couples discuss what they would do if they won the lottery than how they would co-parent their children in the event of separation, says the Positive Parenting Alliance – a coalition of over 20 children’s mental health charities, separated parenting groups,...
Domestic Abuse Guidance Note To Be Updated
We've had really good feedback on our Domestic Abuse Guidance Note. However, in light of recent changes in the law and guidance (in particular the Domestic Abuse Act and the appeal in Re H-N), we will be revising this guidance note over coming months. For those...
Domestic Abuse Act 2021 – What does it mean for Family Courts and the people using them?
The Domestic Abuse Bill became law on 29 April 2021 and is now known as the Domestic Abuse Act 2021. The Act is vast and wide ranging, and this post covers those parts of it which bear directly on the work of the family courts. There is lots more in it that we aren't...
From one President to another
This is the text of a submission to the President of the Family Division's Transparency Review made by Sir James Munby (former President of the Family Division), in advance of the oral evidence session scheduled for 17 May 2021. It is published here with kind...
Fairness 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] EWCA Civ 605. Basically, she is asking the Court of Appeal to say the...
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