The Weekly Law Reports
[1999] 3 WLR 685
[COURT OF APPEAL]
GLOUCESTERSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL v. P. and Others
1999 April 16;
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Butler-Sloss, Thorpe and Robert Walker L.JJ.
Children
— Residence order
— Power of court to act of own motion
— Child in care
— Local authority applying to free child for adoption and grandparents applying for residence order
— Guardian ad litem recommending that child remain with foster parents
— Foster parents not entitled to apply for residence order
— Whether power to grant residence order to foster parents
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Children Act 1989 (c. 41), ss. 9, 10