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January Family Law Case Reports: Highlights

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Date:17 JAN 2014
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Samantha Bangham
Law Reporter

Samantha Bangham - Family Law Reporter Happy New Year! What better way to ease into the new working year than by catching up on all the latest news cases and legislation in your January edition of Family Law. T

he case of Re W (Adoption Order: Leave to Oppose); Re H (Adoption Order: Application for Permission for Leave to Oppose) [2013] EWHC Civ 1177 [2014] FLR forthcoming is an important judgment from the President applying the principles in Re B (Care Proceedings: Appeal) [2013] UKSC 33 [2013] 2 FLR 1075. Both of these joined cases as the names suggest involved appeals from adoption orders. The judgment was given shortly after Re B-S (Adoption: Application of s 47(5)) [2013] EWCA Civ 1146 [2014] 1 FLR forthcoming and noted that appropriate allowance had to be made for judgments such as the first instance decision here given before that date. In those circumstances the emphasis had to be on substance...

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