X and Y v A Local Authority (Adoption: Procedure)

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Neutral Citation[2009] EWHC 47 (Fam)
Date2009
CourtFamily Division
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4 cases
  • Re B-S (Children)
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 17 September 2013
    ...return to his mother and should not be adopted." He contrasted that with what McFarlane J, as he then was, had said in X and Y v A Local Authority (Adoption: Procedure) [2009] EWHC 47 (Fam), [2009] 2 FLR 984, para 15: "On the information that is before the court it seems entirely improbabl......
  • C (A Child)
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 25 April 2013
    ...a "stringent approach" was required: Re W, para [28], approving the approach adopted by McFarlane J, as he then was, in X and Y v A Local Authority (Adoption: Procedure) [2009] EWHC 47 (Fam), [2009] 2 FLR 984, para [15]. In Re W Thorpe LJ expressed it in this way (para [20]): "I am in no d......
  • Kirsty Louise Seddon v Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council
    • United Kingdom
    • Family Division
    • 14 September 2015
    ...2 FLR 625. It is good practice for the question to be resolved at the time the adoption order is made, and not later: X and Y v A Local Authority (Adoption: Procedure) [2009] 2 FLR 984. 40 In contrast to the strong obligations that arise in relation to children in care, there is no duty upo......
  • Re W (A Child) (Adoption: Leave to Oppose)
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 24 November 2010
    ...the same emphasis, namely that the judge failed to follow an approach which had been articulated by McFarlane J in the case of X and Y v a Local Authority [2009] 2 FLR 984. 9 Mr Douglass of course supports the judgment below and essentially urges on this court that the judge was right for t......

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