The Law Reports (Appeal Cases)
[1980] AC 311
[FAMILY DIVISION]
NOTE
WHEATLEY
v.
WALTHAM FOREST LONDON BOROUGH COUNCIL
1978 June 13,
14,
15
Sir George Baker P. and Waterhouse J.
Children and Young Persons
— Care of
— Child received into care by local authority
— Mother's request for return of child
— Authority's resolution assuming parental rights
— Mother's objection
— Decision by juvenile court that resolution to stand
— Whether power to make resolution
— Whether mother consistently failing in parental obligations
—
Children Act 1948 (11 & 12 Geo. 6, c. 43), ss. 1 (3A), 2 (1) (b) (v) (5) (as amended and substituted by Children Act 1975 (c. 72), ss. 56 (1), 57)