The Weekly Law Reports
[1981] 3 WLR 959
[COURT OF APPEAL]
W.
v.
NOTTINGHAMSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL
1981 Oct. 12,
13;
22
Ormrod and Oliver L.JJ. and Purchas J.
Children and Young Persons
— Care of
— Child received into care by local authority
— Authority's resolution assuming parental rights
— Mother's objection
— Child in care for three years at time of hearing
— Ground for passing resolution no longer subsisting
— Whether subsequent and alternative ground of three years in care sufficient to support continuance of resolution
—
Children Act 1948 (11 & 12 Geo. 6, c. 43), ss. 1, 2 (as amended by Children Act 1975 (c. 72), s. 57)