The Weekly Law Reports
[2008] 3 WLR 445
Court of Appeal
C
v
XYZ County Council
[2007] EWCA Civ 1206
2007 Nov 7;
23
Thorpe, Arden and Lawrence Collins LJJ
Adoption— Adoption order— Arrangements for adoption— Unmarried mother deciding to place child for adoption— Mother wishing to keep child’s birth secret from father and her own family— Whether court and adoption agency under duty to investigate extended family and father as potential carers— Whether order preventing disclosure of child’s birth infringing family’s and father’s Convention rights—
Human Rights Act 1998 (c 42), Sch 1, Pt I, art 8
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Adoption and Children Act 2002 (c 38), s 1