The Law Reports (Chancery Division)
[1961] Ch 81
[CHANCERY DIVISION]
In re
M. (AN INFANT).
[1960 M. No. 2772.]
1960 Nov. 16,
17,
30.
Cross J.
Children and Young Persons
— Care of
— Child received into care by local authority
— Child boarded out under statutory agreement
— Refusal of foster-mother to deliver up child to local authority
— Child made a ward of court on summons issued by foster-mother
— Jurisdiction of Chancery Division to consider welfare of child
—
Children Act, 1948 (11 & 12 Geo. 6, c. 43), ss. 1, 2, 13
—
Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1949 (12, 13 & 14 Geo. 6, c. 100), s. 9.
Infant
— Ward of count
— Jurisdiction
— Child in care of local authority
— Whether jurisdiction over child
—
Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1949, s. 9.
Crown
— Prerogative
— Statute, application to
— Crown as parens patriae
— Wardship jurisdiction of Chancery Division
— Whether restricted by
Children Act, 1948
.