Hi everyone! It's been a minute, but we are back with more Monday Case Summaries! All courtesy of LawTel and powered by WordPress - enjoy! The court considered jurisdictional issues and procedural duties and obligations arising in cases involving babies born in the UK to foreign nationals and relinquished at birth for adoption. It particularly … Continue reading JL AND AO (BABIES RELINQUISHED FOR ADOPTION) sub nom A LONDON BOROUGH COUNCIL v JL (BY HIS CHILDREN’S GUARDIAN) : A WESTERN CIRCUIT LOCAL AUTHORITY v (1) A MOTHER (2) A FATHER (3) AO (BY HER CHILDREN’S GUARDIAN) (2016)
Tag: Adoption
RE N (CHILDREN) (2016)
The court considered the proper approach to determining applications to transfer care proceedings to foreign courts under Regulation 2201/2003 art.15. The issues of whether a court was "better placed" to hear proceedings and whether transfer was in the "best interests" of the child were separate questions which had to be addressed separately. If a foreign … Continue reading RE N (CHILDREN) (2016)
QS v RS (2015)
The High Court could exercise its inherent jurisdiction in proceedings concerning the custody of a child, who had been adopted in Nepal and was a British national resident in Dubai. The English court was the sole court which could remedy the non-recognisability of adoption at all under UAE law, and the fact that the Nepalese … Continue reading QS v RS (2015)
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