Re A. (an Infant)

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1963
Year1963
CourtChancery Division
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29 cases
  • GS v SS and Others
    • United Kingdom
    • Family Division
    • 30 Noviembre 2016
    ...to exercise any parental responsibility but merely wish to assist the child to acquire a right of abode. This is what Cross J. in In re A (An infant) [1963] 1 WLR 231, 236, called an "accommodation" adoption. The second proposition is that the court will rarely make an adoption order when i......
  • Re D (A Minor) (Adoption Order: Validity)
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 21 Diciembre 1990
    ...Therefore, there is no doubt that, in the exercise of the court's discretion, this order ought to be made." 19 In In Re A. (An Infant) [1963] 1 W.L.R. 231, in the context of an unsuccessful application by an English married couple to adopt a French child, where the hearing took place a mont......
  • FAS v Bradford Metropolitan District Council (1st Respondent) Secretary of State for the Home Department (2nd Respondent)
    • United Kingdom
    • Family Division
    • 13 Marzo 2015
    ...responsibility but merely wish to assist the child to acquire a right of abode. This is what Cross J. in In re A. (An infant) [1963] 1 WLR 231, 236 called an "accommodation" adoption. The second proposition is that the court will rarely make an adoption order when it would confer no benefi......
  • Re K (A Minor) (Adoption order: Nationality)
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 22 Abril 1994
    ...schemes applying different criteria and adopting different procedures and liable to produce different consequences. 45 In In re A [1963] 1 WLR 231 at 237 Cross J warned against the dangers of the court, on an adoption application, "taking on itself functions similar to those of the Home Sec......
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