Child Care in UK Law

  • Re B (A Child) (Care Order: Proportionality: Criterion for Review)
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 2013
  • B (A Child)
    • Supreme Court
    • 12 Junho 2013
    ... ... Lord Wilson INTRODUCTION ... 1 This challenge to the making of a care order, made with a view to the child's adoption, requires the court to consider ... (a) aspects of the threshold to the ... ...
  • M and Another v London Borough of Newham and Others; X and Others v Bedfordshire County Council
    • House of Lords
    • 29 Junho 1995
    ... ... to someone no action will lie if the act is performed with reasonable care. If, on the other hand, the authorised act is performed carelessly whereby ... duties imposed on them for the purpose of protecting children from child abuse. In the second group (the Dorset case, the Hampshire case and ... ...
  • Re B-S (Children)
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 17 Setembro 2013
    ... ... In February 2011 they were removed from the mother's care. In October 2011 they were made the subject of care and placement orders, ... the then very recent decision of the Supreme Court in In re B (A Child) (Care Proceedings: Threshold Criteria) [2013] UKSC 33 , [2013] 1 WLR ... ...
  • Re S (Minors) (Care Order: Implementation of Care Plan); Re W
    • House of Lords
    • 14 Março 2002
    ... ... The children are now 14, 11 and 10 years old. The appeal concerns the two younger children. The father of P, the eldest child, played no part in these proceedings. The mother met the father of M and J in 1987. They started to cohabit in 1989 ... 3 Serious problems ... ...
  • Barrett v Enfield London Borough Council
    • House of Lords
    • 17 Junho 1999
    ... ... 1 When the plaintiff was 10 months old, he was the subject of a care order in favour of the defendant, London Borough of Enfield. He remained ... recognising the position was not the same as that considered in the child abuse cases considered in The X Case (which involved a statutory ... ...
  • D v East Berkshire Community NHS Trust and Another
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 31 Julho 2003
    ... ... Community Health Respondents (2) Dewsbury Health Care Nhs Trust and Kirklees Metropolitan Council (3) Oldham Nhs Trust ... Each involves accusations of abusing a child made against a parent by the professionals concerned for the welfare of ... ...
  • B (Children) (Care Proceedings: Standard of Proof) (CAFCASS intervening)
    • House of Lords
    • 11 Junho 2008
    ... ... of Proof) [1996] AC 563 is that section 31(2)(a) of the Children Act 1989 requires any facts used as the basis of a prediction that a child is "likely to suffer significant harm" to be proved to have happened. Every such fact is to be treated as a fact in issue. The majority of the House ... ...
  • A v A (Children: Habitual Residence)
    • Supreme Court
    • 09 Setembro 2013
    ... ... has jurisdiction to order the "return" to this country of a small child who has never lived or even been here, on the basis either that he is ... Court with respect to children – (i) so far as it gives care of a child to any person or provides for contact with, or the education ... ...
  • McFarlane v Tayside Health Board
    • House of Lords
    • 25 Novembro 1999
    ... ... McFarlane became pregnant and their fifth child, Catherine, was born on 6 May 1992. They claim that Mrs. McFarlane ... of having the child could be set off against the time, trouble and care in the upbringing of the child but not against prenatal pain and distress ... ...
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