The Law Reports (Family Division)
[1975] Fam 127
[DIVISION COURT]
In re B. (A MINOR) (ADOPTION BY PARENT)
1974 Dec. 2,
3,
4
Sir George Baker P., Cumming-Bruce and Bagnall JJ.
Adoption
— Consent of parent
— Dispensing with
— Legitimate child's parents divorced and both remarried
— Mother applying for adoption of child
— Undesirability of legitimate child being adopted and deprived of relationship with other parent
— Test of “unreasonably” withholding consent
— Retirement of justices with guardian ad litem's representative
— Irregularity
—
Adoption Act 1958 (7 Eliz. 2, c. 5), s. 5 (1)
[1]
Adoption
— Jurisdiction of justices
— Existing court order
— Court order granting custody to mother with access to father
— Justices' jurisdiction to make adoption order at variance with existing order
— Procedure to be adopted