The Weekly Law Reports
[2016] 2 WLR 1013
Family Division
Seddon
v
Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council
[2015] EWHC 2609 (Fam)
2015 June 19;
Sept 14
Peter Jackson J
Adoption— Adoption order— Contact— Child placed for adoption following care proceedings brought by local authority— Birth mother seeking leave to apply for post-adoption contact— Whether Convention right to family life as between birth parent and child surviving making of adoption order— Whether post-adoption contact reviving or creating Convention rights as between birth parent and adopted child— Whether legislation governing post-adoption contact incompatible with Convention rights— Whether leave to be granted— Whether local authority post-adoption correspondence exchange service engaging Convention rights— Whether redaction of and refusal to forward correspondence unlawful—
Human Rights Act 1998 (c 42), ss 6, 7, Sch 1, Pt I, art 8
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Adoption and Children Act 2002 (c 38) (as amended by Children and Families Act 2014 (c 6), s 9), ss 3(1), 46, 51A, 67
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Adoption Support Services Regulations 2005 (SI 2005/691), reg 3(1)(c)