Adoption: Time for a change?

Lamb Building | March 2022 #211
June Venters QC explores the evolution of adoption law and asks, based on both her personal and professional experiences, whether the law as to post-adoption contact should be reviewed Before any application for post-adoption contact is considered, there needs to have been a thorough investigation into the extent of any abuse perpetrated and the significant …

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Public children: Not a foregone conclusion

Russell-Cooke LLP | February 2021 #200
Natasha Kirk and James Sandiford ask when care proceedings should be withdrawn and highlight that the answer may not be obvious and caution must be taken The guardian’s grounds of appeal centred on criticism of the judge’s decision to determine the issue of threshold summarily, without hearing and testing the evidence of lay parties and …

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