The Weekly Law Reports
[2021] 1 WLR 670
Family Court
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[2020] EWFC 33
2020 March 3; April 22
Theis J
Adoption— Arrangements for adoption— Placement outside jurisdiction— Child’s testamentary guardian wishing to adopt child in United States of America pursuant to Hague Convention— Whether guardian able to give valid consent to own adoption application for purposes of Convention— Whether breach of Convention prohibition on “entrusting” child to “prospective adoptive parents” before state of origin and receiving state agreeing adoption could proceed—
Children Act 1989 (c 41), s 6(7)
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Adoption and Children Act 2002 (c 38), s 47
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Convention on Protection of Children and Co-operation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption (1993), arts 4, 17
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