The Weekly Law Reports
[1986] 3 WLR 927
[COURT OF APPEAL]
In re
V. (A MINOR) (ADOPTION: CONSENT)
1985 June 6,
7;
19
Oliver and Lloyd L.JJ. and Sir Edward Eveleigh
Adoption
— Consent of parent
— Dispensing with
— Child left with proposed adopters
— Mother in regular contact
— Mother initially consenting unconditionally to adoption
— Subsequent wish to bring up all her children together
— Refusal to consent
— Whether consent unreasonably withheld
— Whether consent to be dispensed with
— Whether court to make adoption order subject to access by natural parent
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Children Act 1975 (c. 72), ss. 3, 12(2)(b)